To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.
H.G. WellsTags: new-york-city
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
John LennonTags: new-york-city musician
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
Irwin ShawTags: literary-criticism new-york-city
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
Russell BakerTags: new-york-city
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
Robert MosesTags: new-york-city
It's a city where everbody mutinies but no one deserts.
Harry HershfieldTags: new-york-city
Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.
Kenneth TynanTags: new-york-city
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks glasses! of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster— tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone?
Herman MelvilleTags: new-york-city
New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.
Nigel GoslinTags: new-york-city houston
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher MorleyTags: new-york-city
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