The best Quotes and Sayings about New York City

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There 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.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Manhattan, 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.

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?

I don't wanna f-ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.

Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.

It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city.

Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

New York is my favorite city in the world.

L.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.

New York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing.

Everyone 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.

When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.

There 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.

You 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.

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

I 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.

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.'

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

Tom 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.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.

Now 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.

When 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.

Anything else, mom? You want me to mow the lawn? Oops! I forgot, New York, No grass.

This 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!