Quotes About NYC: The most iconic place in the United States is called New York City. It is known as, “The city that never sleeps.”
The state is ranked top 2 as a global power city in the world! New York has enormous global importance in cultural, financial, and technological issues. New York City, often captures the minds and hearts of those who visit here.It is an exciting and adventurous place, full of many experiences and opportunities.
Here are some of the best quotes about New York City! (NYC).
Famous Quotes About NYC
“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” Georgia O’Keeffe
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“I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘Well, I’m still in New York’. Thank you, God.” Ed Koch
“I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.” Dylan Thomas
“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.” Dorothy Parker
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” Tom Wolfe
“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book — and does.” Groucho Marx
“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.” John Lennon
“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” Mark Twain
“New York is appalling, fantastically charmless, and elaborately dire.” Henry James
“New York may be the city that never sleeps, but it sure does sleep around.” Brian Bendis
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years”. Tom Wolfe
“My favorite thing about New-York is the people because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.” Bill Murray
“I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.” Dylan Thomas
“The glamour of it all! New York! America!” Charlie Chaplin
“There is something in New York air that makes sleep useless” Simone Beauvoir
“A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.” Lady Gaga
“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.” Dorothy Parker
“When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.” Ryan Adams
“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud.” James Baldwin
“I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, ‘There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.’” Robert de Niro
“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” Fran Lebowitz
“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” Simone de Beauvoir
“People go to LA to ‘find themselves’, they come to New York to become someone new.” Lindsey Kelk
“Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.” Albert Camus
“When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie” Ryan Adams
“People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new” Lindsey Kelk
“You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.” Edward Rutherfurd
“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline” Ayn Rand
“My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.” Bill Murray
“Anything is possible. This is New York.” Carrie Bradshaw
“Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark.” O. Henry
“Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city drags itself awake on subway straps; and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded.” Maya Angelou
“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there…. Squares after squares of flame, set up, and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.” Ezra Pound
“New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.” Delia Ephron
“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.” Le Corbusier
“I went to New York to be born again” Kurt Vonnegurt
“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe” Le Corbusier
“A true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding” John Updike
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 beauty in the world.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.” Edward Rutherford
“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One
“You haven’t lived until you died in New York.” Alexander Woollcott
“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” John Updike
“For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.” Karl Lagerfeld
“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
“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.” Elbert Hubbart
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.” Angela Carter
“New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something” Lindsey Kelk
“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough” Fran Lebowitz
“Sometimes I feel like my only friend, is the city I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn.” Mos Def
“That’s my favorite place in the world, so far, that I’ve seen. I haven’t travelled much, but I don’t think I’ll find anything to replace Brooklyn.” Marilyn Monroe
“If I’d lived in Roman times, I’d have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.” John Lennon
“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.” Elbert Hubbard
“Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark.” O. Henry
“When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.” Jimmy Breslin
“New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.” Thomas Jefferson
“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
“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.” Ayn Rand
“Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those extra ten years I’d like to spent in New York.” Harry Ruby
“Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan!” Walt Whitman
“It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.” Joan Didion
“By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience—if they did they would live elsewhere.” E.B. White
city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young” Joan Didion
“New York provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.” E.B White
“For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.” Karl Lagerfeld
“I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘Well, I’m still in New York. Thank you, God‘ ” Ed Koch
“I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, “There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.” Robert De Niro
“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” Nora Ephrom
“A concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you.” Alicia Keys
“In New York, the opportunities for learning, and acquiring a culture that shall not come out of the ruins, but belongs to life, are probably greater than anywhere else in the world.” Thomas Wolfe
“‘New York!’ he said. ‘That’s not a place, it’s a dream.’” Ralph Ellison
“It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.” Susan Ertz
“In New York, the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.” Edna Ferber
“At night… the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.” Frank Lloyd Wright
“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
“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” Agatha Christie
“The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.” E.B. White
“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
“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” Nora Ephron
“Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those extra ten years I’d like to spent in New York.” Harry Ruby
“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt” Georgia O’Keeffe
“Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.” Johnny Carson
“New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer…. In New York, I have always felt lonely, the loneliness of the caged animal, which brings on crime, sex, alcohol, and other madnesses.” Henry Miller
“To Europe she was America. To America, she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.” H.G. Wells
“Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish.” Awkafina