Life In New York City Quotes

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

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'My God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City. — Graydon Carter

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling. — Charles E. Rosenberg

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you. — Ann Douglas

Lost in New York City. Not that I don't know where I am, but rather perplexed as to where I am going. — Christy Hall

At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating. — Sarah Pekkanen

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely. — Brian Koppelman

A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights) — Ed Park

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights) — Jerrold Mundis

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery. — Gina Greenlee

New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example. — Colson Whitehead

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City. — Melissa Joan Hart

New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life. — Hope Edelman

Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City ... — Christy Hall

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city. — Alan Rickman

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. — Francis Picabia

Have you ever experienced a beauty of soul, an esthetic grace, that was so intense it made you want to cry?
From Central Park Song ( A Screenplay ) — Zack Love

WHAT CAN YOU SPEND BUT YOU CAN NEVER GET BACK????
TIME!
CHOOSE HOW YOU SPEND YOUR TIME AND WHO YOU SPEND IT WITH WISELY. — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights) — Eve Kagan

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. — Edward I. Koch

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights) — David Levien

Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the Dominican Day parade. — Stephanie Clifford

I loved experiencing city life in New York. — Quvenzhane Wallis

Want more fizz in your life?
Shake things up. — Gina Greenlee

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. — Irving Berlin

To paraphrase Shakespeare's Polonius, you sometimes have to get your hands a little dirty to set things straight. — Lynn Steward

Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody. — T.A

Chance is life's only certainty. — Mickey Wyte

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line. — Gina Greenlee

New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls. — Kurt Wenzel

Dating Advice: If you want your life partner to be a vegetarian, move to New York City. — Paul Oyer

Give full attention to life's moments
and the images you capture will be everlasting. — Gina Greenlee

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course. — Kathleen Battle