York Quotes

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

In the Dominican Republic I was happy. But I had no future. In New York I have a lot of problems, but I have opportunity.

New York City has taken a much-needed step that we hope will be followed by other jurisdictions throughout the United States.

Every block of the city is a quintessential definition of the highly diversified New York food cultue. Each area is divided as a small village of its own unique flavors and history. The variety of cuisine that the city provides is almost infinite. Starting from Tribeca, Chinatown, Little Italy, Soho, Lower East Side, Meat Packing district, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Gramecy Park, Theater, Lincoln Center, Upper East Side, Harlem, The Bronx, Brooklyn to Queens; New York City will never fail to surprise us with its treasure of cuisines. The answer is in the pride New Yorkers take in saying "ONLY IN NEW YORK".

My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.

[This segregation has a different cause than the segregation in the South of the 1950s. In New York,] the segregation in the schools reflects segregation in the housing market, ... one of the most segregated cities in the country in terms of blacks and whites.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.