Nyc Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old nyc quotes, nyc sayings, and nyc proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

If you want to become a real New Yorker, there's only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe. Ellen R. Shapiro
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class. Edmund White
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world. F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. Francis Picabia
New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious. Ford Madox Ford
In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place. Eli Manning
I love New York City. The reason I live in New York City is because it's the loudest city on the planet Earth. It's so loud I never have to listen to any of the shit that's going on in my own head. It's really loud. They literally have guys come with jackhammers and they drill the streets and just leave cones in front of your apartment; you don't even know why. Garbage men come; they don't pick up the garbage, they just bang the cans together. Lewis Black
New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand. David B. Lentz
New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something. Lindsey Kelk
New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall. Debbie Harry
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. Thomas Wolfe
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
Cut off as I am, it is inveitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary, but I have the comforting certainly that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream. Helen Keller
New York attracts the most people in the world in the arts and professions. It also attracts them in other fields. Even the bums are talented. Edmund Love
In New York it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you lay the blame. Fran Lebowitz
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London. Bette Midler
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. Desmond Morris
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. Thomas Wolfe
You know you're a new yorker when. Your navigational directions are east, west, uptown, and downtown. Bathroom Readers' Institute
You know you're a new yorker when. You say 'the city' but mean 'Manhattan.' Bathroom Readers' Institute
You're a new yorker when. You sprint to catch the subway even when you're not in a hurry. Bathroom Readers' Institute
You're a new yorker when. All the clothes in your closet are black. Bathroom Readers' Institute
You're a new yorker when. You'd climb three flights of subway stairs with crutches to avoid the subway elevator. Bathroom Readers' Institute
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book and does. Groucho Marx
If you fall down in New York, there is always someone happy to pick you up by your wallet. Geoff Tibballs
New York is great. If you're here and want a one of a kind souvenir, be sure to take home the police sketch of your assailant. David Letterman
When a New Yorker looks as if he's got a suntan, it's probably rust. Geoff Tibballs
If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, 'I took a taxi.' Andre Maurois
Make your mark in New York and you are a made man. Mark Twain
With modern jets you can have breakfast in Los Angeles, lunch in New York, dinner in London, and baggage in Rome. Evan Esar