FAMOUS NEW YORK QUOTES

“I love New York; even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Truman Capote

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike

“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – Tom Wolfe

“If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.” – Frank Sinatra

“New York is not a city, but a world.” – Derek Jeter

“I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.” – Milos Forman

“New York has a thousand universes in it that don’t always connect, but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls.” – Jay Z

“New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.” – Joan Didion

“New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.” – Russell Baker

“I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

“In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there’s nothing you can’t do.” – Jay Z and Alicia Keys

“Give me such shows – give me the streets of Manhattan!” – Walt Whitman

“New York is not for the faint-hearted. It is a city of Brick Lane alarm clocks, nights when you wake up with the sheets wrapped around your throat, intelligence officers, murderers, detectives, vivisectors, opera singers, pirates, revolutionaries, streetfighters, politicians, sex maniacs.” – Dylan Thomas

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.” – Ayn Rand QUOTES ABOUT LIFE FAMILY AND FORGIVENESS

“I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

“New York is more than a tan that you’ll never lose.” – Lady Gaga

“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition relentless.” – Federico Garcia Lorca

“New York City is like its own mythical creature, a legendary city that has walked right out of the pages of a fairy tale.” – Hoda Kotb

“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.” – Ayn Rand

“New York is not a city, but a world.” – Derek Jeter

“Manhattan itself is a photograph, millions of moments captured in the twinkling of an eye.” – Christina Garcia

“New York City is all about reinvention.” – Mark Bozek

“New York is an attitude, not just a city.” – Madonna

“I fell in love with her [New York City] courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The city that never sleeps. That’s what they say about this place. That, and this place’ll eat you alive if you’re not careful.” – M.J. Rose

“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” – Agatha Christie

“I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Truman Capote