New Yorkers Quotes: top 79 famous quotes about New Yorkers

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New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist. — Sloane Crosley

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world. — Andy Warhol

So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers. — Edward Burns

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent. — Van Wyck Brooks

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person. — Christine Quinn

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!' — Elaine Stritch

I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know. — Carla Hall

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush. — Raymond Chandler

In 1955, there were 150,000 New Yorkers on welfare; in 1995, there were 1.3 million. — Pete Hamill

I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here. — Elaine Stritch

For a Bostonian ... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling. — Donnie Wahlberg

There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. — John Oliver

New Yorkers must be able to trust the men and women of the NYPD. They must come forward to report crimes. And they must come forward as witnesses. — Eric Schneiderman

New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill. — Anderson Cooper

Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers. — George Pataki

I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life. — Nouriel Roubini

New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me. — Fran Lebowitz

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us. — Colson Whitehead

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world. — Steve Earle

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day. — Sloane Crosley

I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear. — Henrik Lundqvist

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. — Alan Dershowitz

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here. — Sloane Crosley

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration. — Herb Caen

New Yorkers are real gritty and tough. — Raymond Kelly

New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers. — Brooks Atkinson

As I've always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them. — George Steinbrenner

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park. — Andy Roddick

I think sleep is just the most important thing. I think most New Yorkers, especially, don't get enough sleep. — Chelsea Leyland

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. — Phyllis Diller

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York? — Edward Abbey

A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans — Curtis Granderson

So New Yorkers, who had so many nameless terrors, were easily taught to fear something seemingly specific - The Pluto Gang. — Kurt Vonnegut

If "Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about. — Elizabeth Bard

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me. — Bob Dylan

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

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11. — Lanford Wilson

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain. — Michele Lee

I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line. — Jeffrey Steingarten

I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York. — Creed Bratton

New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love — Madonna Ciccone

Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry. — Lily Tomlin

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed. — Jim Harrison

My message for New Yorkers is prepare for something worse than we have ever seen before. — Anonymous

I'm a Tennessean at heart, and a New Yorker in spirit. — Rachel Boston

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in. — Jane Pauley

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night. — Dorothy Parker

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly. — Jeannette Walls

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling. — Christine Lavin

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are. — Bill De Blasio

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had. — Jon Stewart

I may be one of the last New Yorkers who actually drives in the city daily. — Donald Trump Jr.

I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard. — Ben Elliot

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! — Patrick Henry

I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn; — Pete Hamill

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded. — Genevieve Gorder

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. — Johnny Carson

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense. — Josh Radnor

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. — Douglas Adams

A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla! — Heather Thomson

Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them. — Ellie Kemper

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies. — Clark Gregg

New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest. — Janet McTeer

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan. — Toby Young

The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers. — John Spencer

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans. — Nydia Velazquez

Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers. — Hillary Clinton

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers. — Ansel Elgort

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers. — Malachy McCourt

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place. — Wolfgang Puck

New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all! — Robert Orben

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

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers. — George Pataki

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers. — Christine Quinn

New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves. — Katharine Brush

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers ... — Edith Wharton

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up. — Jimmy Connors

What he needed Gorham to understand - what his son was heir to - the thing that really mattered - was the New Yorkers indomitable spirit — Edward Rutherfurd

Sixth-grade sweethearts. Wow. New Yorkers only commit to that type of monogamy with the Yankees or Giants — Gwendolyn Heasley