QUOTES FOR NEW YORK CITY

“New York City: where dreams are made of.” – Jay-Z

“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

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

“You haven’t lived until you’ve died in New York.” – Alexander Woollcott

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

“Make it here and you can make it anywhere.” – Frank Sinatra

“New York is not a city, it’s a world.” – Derek Jeter

“New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.” – Djuna Barnes

“I’m just as influenced by Fellini as I am by Manhattan, if not more so.” – Sofia Coppola

“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

“Nothing is real but the sidewalks under our feet.” – St. Vincent

“New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.” – Henry Ford QUOTES ABOUT SURPRISE LOVE

“New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh, there’s nothing you can’t do.” – Jay-Z

“The essence of New York City is change.” – Tony Robbins

“New York is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn

“To know the city is to love it.” – William Safire

“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” – Fran Lebowitz

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

“New York was never built for the comfort and convenience of its citizens, but for the astonishment of the world.” – Charles Dickens

“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 is murderous. But there is one thing about it: once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” – John Steinbeck

“There’s no place else like it. Everything moves at a frenetic pace, and that’s what makes it exciting.” – Michael Bloomberg

“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 (Character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

“New York City is the place where the future comes to rehearse.” – Sarah Palin