No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
Michael BloombergIn New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.
Michael BloombergA real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
R. L. StineNew York is my favorite city in the world.
Liam GallagherL.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.
Los AngelesJimmy FallonNew York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing.
Joel RobuchonEveryone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay.
BombayTena DesaeWhen I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.
Mac MillerThere were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo and get a Yankees hat.
New York YankeesEd SheeranYou can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.
Sarah Jessica ParkerI have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.
Cardi BI came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
Philip RothNew York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher MorleyI remember coming to New York in 1974. I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, 'I'm home.' I felt really at peace here.
Anthony HopkinsI 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 NiroNew York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed.
Frank Lloyd WrightI'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
Chicago, HollywoodMichael DouglasTraffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
David LettermanTom Booker: "Do you ever sit still for just a minute?"
Annie: "Well, you sit still too long in New York and you get renovated."
I am known for my sense of irony but even I would not have come to think of putting a Statue of Liberty into the New York Harbour.
AmericaGeorge Bernard ShawNew York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
Johnny CarsonThe two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
Buenos AiresJJ FeildNow we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.
Rudy GiulianiThere are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.
FameSpiderman - 2, by Grüner KoboldIf I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York
I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap
In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?
Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City, Season 2 Episode 5Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called 'The First Date'. On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.
Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City, Season 2 Episode 3When you live on a tiny island like Manhattan, the odds of bumping into the one who broke your heart are incredibly high. The odds of bumping into him when you look like shit are even higher.
Breakup & LovesickCarrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City, Season 2 Episode 1No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.
SexCarrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City, Season 1 Episode 11When the darkness fell, New York City became something else, any old Sinatra song notwithstanding. Bad things happened in the night, on the streets of that other city. Noir York City.
Max Payne - 2Anything else, mom? You want me to mow the lawn? Oops! I forgot, New York, No grass.
Hackers, by Dade MurphyThis is New York City, don't get close to the neighbours. You nod at them politely in the hall, you call the cops if you haven't seen them in a while and you smell something funny and that's it!
NeighborsTed Mosby in How I Met Your Mother, Season 3 Episode 11