Quotation new york city

I love New York and this post is serious wanderlust! I love NYC and I love quotes! As someone who lived in NYC for several years I still miss the city and feel like there is nowhere else like it.

Love this collection of quotes! I like how varied they are and it really brings back memories of my trip to new york city. New York I will see you soon. Your email address will not be published.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. I too Do you have any travel plans for the summer? Last updated on August 5th, at pm In need for some travel inspirations and some wanderlust to daydream about New York? Those quotes about New York will make you want to jump on a plane straight away! Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 2. Tom Wolfe 4. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel.

When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body. 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. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open? I only found silence in Central Park, still littered with people of course, but the only place that held moments of calm.

I breathed in that wonderful silence as my pace finally slowed, and nature delighted my senses. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. Of course, the Mist helped. People probably couldn't see Mrs. O'Leary, or maybe they thought she was a large,loud,very friendly truck. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans. New York is the true capital of America.

Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage.

I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later—because I did not belong there, did not come from there—but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs.

I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month. Damage has been done to your city.

You say, ''It happened overnight. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Le Corbusier. Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. Irving Berlin. When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. Fran Lebowitz. For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. Karl Lagerfeld. Hugh Jackman. I came to New York to be a fine artist — that was my ambition. David Byrne. The glamour of it all! New York! Charlie Chaplin. Milos Forman.

I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. I had really short hair and started blurring the line a bit. But for me, grade school was about Benetton, Esprit, and Guess jeans. New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.

Frank Lloyd Wright. Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men. Sarah Jessica Parker. I miss Shake Shack. Aziz Ansari. Miuccia Prada. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

Amy Poehler. Tim Gunn. Bill Murray. Ryan Adams. I was so excited. Greta Gerwig.