Best 92 New York Quotes About the Case of the Big Apple
If you haven’t visited New York City yet, then, what are you waiting for? You have been nowhere if not there. It is where the streets have a pulse, the skyline is remarkable and the people are themselves. The huge variety of multi cultures combined together makes this city the freest on the planet. In spite of the cons that come with any metropolis, no one would change it for the world. Some of the greatest, most popular celebrities also find this place unique.
Such artists have named movies after it and many more have written songs in its honor. They too have been astonished with the wealth, the poverty, the romance, the art, all in a single sight of the big apple, as it is called. Read on to find out what some famous actors, novelists, singers and other personalities have stated about this one of a kind town. It is no coincidence that such a destination will inspire and motive you, friends, loved ones and anyone who decides to follow you. It’s worth the trip!
Table of Contents
- Best 15 New York Quotes
- Funny New York Quotes
- New York Love Quotes
- Short New York Quotes
- Living in New York Quotes
- Quotes about New Yorkers
Best 15 New York Quotes
- One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. Tom Wolfe
- New York. They call it the city that never sleeps… They should call it the city that never dies. We rise! Steve Maraboli
- 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
- When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. Fran Lebowitz
- New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most of it unsolved. Johnny Carson
- New York is a work of art in and of itself. It’s a masterpiece that shouldn’t make sense, yet somehow, it does. Jacqueline E. Smith
- Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day. Joseph O’Neill
- A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. Le Corbusier
- The city is tricky. The highs are so much higher, but in the lows you drop straight down again to bedrock. Olivia Sudjic
- People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new. Lindsey Kelk
- Now I got these diaries that have the greatest hero a writer needs, this crazy f***ing New York. Jim Carroll
- New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac’s, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses. Duke Ellington
- 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
- In Boston, they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents? Mark Twain
- In New York City, real estate parlors took your money and lied to you, drug addicts relieved themselves in plain sight, and the Public Library was closed on Mondays. Tom Hanks
Funny New York Quotes
- Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me. O. Henry
- The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store. Ed Koch
- There’s no room for amateurs, even in crossing the streets. George Segal
- Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. David Letterman
- If you live in New York, even if you’re Catholic, you’re Jewish. Lennie Bruce
- The state bird of New York is the Jaywalk. Archie Bulger
- Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book — and does. Groucho Marx
- New York was like an ex who had worked out all summer. Kiley Reid
- The Bronx? No Thonx! Ogden Nash
- It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it. O. Henry
- A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner. Jackie Mason
- Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen. Edward I. Koch
- New York is like living inside Stephen King’s brain during an aneurysm. Kevin Rooney
- The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder. Alex Baze
- Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. Johnny Carson
- New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. Russell Baker
- On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. Lewis Grizzard
- New York now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move. David Letterman
- Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. Angela Carter
- If a newspaper prints a sex crime, it’s smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it’s a sociological study. Adolph S. Ochs
- My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City? Henny Youngman
- I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified. Anita Weiss
- When you’re in New York City, always keep your money and other valuables in a safe place, such as Switzerland. Dave Barry
- The one thing that will help in almost any New York City situation is to simply appear crazier than anyone else around. A.D. Aliwat
- Being hated by America was good for the city, and good for America. Every family needs a black sheep. Jeremiah Moss
- New York Taxi Rules:
1. Driver speaks no English.
2. Driver just got here two days ago from someplace like Segal.
3. Driver hates you.
Dave Barry - New York – The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say “These New Yorkers don’t dress any better than we do”. Robert Benchley
New York Love Quotes
- New York has romanced me unlike anything else. Blake Lively
- Almost no one loves (NY) but everyone lies about it. Meg Fee
- I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. Ayn Rand
- I love New York. But the energy is so intense. John Galliano
- I love New York City…you’re never alone but you’re always on your own. Blair Waldorf
- I didn’t know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. Greta Gerwig
- I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing. Anthony Bourdain
- 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
- It’s also a working-class city peopled by men and women who love with a tough love, in thick accents and no time for bullshit. Jeremiah Moss
- I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts. Hannah Lillith Assadi
- I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you. Billy Graham
- 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
Short New York Quotes
- New York! That’s not a place, it’s a dream. Ralph Ellison
- New York is not a city. It’s a world. Iman
- This isn’t a fairytale. It’s New York City. Alex Flinn
- You’re never alone in New York, the city is your date. Sarah Jessica Parker
- If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. Peter Shaffer
- New York was his town, and it always would be. Woody Allen
- New York feels like a city-themed theme park. Tim Kreider
- New York – the great ‘what if’ for so many. An idea and not a city. Meg Fee
- New York, the nation’s thyroid gland. Christopher Morley
- New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water. Truman Capote
- New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood. Ira Sachs
- One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. Georgia O’Keefe
- There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. Simone de Beauvoir
- New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Hell isn’t fire and brimstone. It’s New York City. Karina Halle
- New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire. Henry James
- Sometimes New York feels like a full body corset. Becky Albertalli
- I never feel as fully awake as when I’m in NY. John Jeremiah Sullivan
- New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down. Alexander McCall Smith
- It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world. Susan Ertz
- [New York is] the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. Jeremiah Moss
Living in New York Quotes
- You haven’t lived until you died in New York. Alexander Woollcott
- If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere. Arthur C. Clarke
- So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation. Jodi Lynn Anderson
- Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough. John Steinbeck
- New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be. Siri Hustvedt
- Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night. Dorothy Parker
- I want to live New York City. Not live IN it, but live IT. I want to be alive right here, right now. Katherine Howe
- 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
- Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. Fran Lebowitz
- Only criminals and madmen walk into Central Park after midnight…or, occasionally, an actor. Jane Dentinger
Quotes about New Yorkers
- New York is for people who need cities, for those who cannot function outside of one. Jeremiah Moss
- Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life. Robert Moses
- The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. John Updike
- Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us. Colson Whitehead
- You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. Colson Whitehead
- True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting. Jimmy Breslin
- Their children, their dogs, and housing prices: the holy trinity of conversation for New Yorkers of a certain sort. For the men, there were also golf courses and wine lists to be discussed; for the women, dermatologists. Anna Quindlen
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