New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up
E.B. WhiteTags: new-york-city
If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
Arthur C. ClarkeTags: new-york-city
If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.
James HillmanTags: new-york-city
New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing her alluring white face and hiding her crooked hands and feet under the folds of her wide garments--constantly enticing thousands from far within, and tempting those who come from across the seas to go no farther. And all these become the victims of her caprice. Some she at once crushes beneath her cruel feet; others she condemns to a fate like that of galley slaves; a few she favors and fondles, riding them high on the bubbles of fortune; then with a sudden breath she blows the bubbles out and laughs mockingly as she watches them fall.
James Weldon JohnsonTags: america new-york-city cities
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: new-york-city
No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.
Kenneth T. JacksonTags: new-york-city
On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.
Lewis GrizzardTags: new-york-city
Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?
Walt WhitmanTags: new-york-city
The Bronx? No Thonx!
Ogden NashTags: new-york-city
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. WhiteTags: new-york-city
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