New York is one of the most visited cities in the world. It is one of the greatest centers of culture and art, and a city where you can find people from almost every country, culture, and tradition in the world.
It is an amazing city where you can find almost everything you seek.
New York is called the Big Apple. What is the origin of this name?
“The Big Apple” is a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its popularity since the 1970s is due in part to a promotional campaign by the New York tourist authorities (Wikipedia).
Here are some famous New York quotes and some less famous ones from writers, actors, singers, and people who love New York.
48 Quotes about New York City that Tell Us What a Wonderful City It Is
“When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.”
“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”
“New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something.”
“I didn’t know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.”
“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.”
“New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.”
“New York ladies all look immaculate.”
“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.”
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”
“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.”
“I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.”
“I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.”
Beautiful NYC Quotes
“When its 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.”
“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.”
“There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it’s because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it’s still better than skipping through a meadow.”
“To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.”
“I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.”
“New York, without a doubt, is my favorite city in the world.”
More New York Quotes
“I love New York. It is an amazing city, and the U.S. Open is a lot about the show. There are tens of thousands of spectators; these are some of the best courts in the world, and there is nothing like being here and making memories.”
“People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it’s the opposite.”
“Over the last few years, NYC has staunchly maintained its welcoming spirit and also made exciting cultural strides forward by giving a voice to many who have in the past been voiceless. It’s an electrifying time for those of us who live in the city of Lady Liberty.”
“New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.”
“The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.”
“Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.”
“I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.”
“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”
Beautiful New York Quotes
“Cut off as I am, it is inevitable 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 certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.”
“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it: Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”
“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.”
“I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.”
“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.”
“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”
Great Quotes About NYC
“New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it’s a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.”
“One’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.”
“A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.”
“I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.”
“New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.”
“New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world’s greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.”
“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.”
“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.”
“My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.”
“This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.”
“I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.”
“Kids from New York usually don’t stay in New York anymore: they go to prep schools and all sorts of stuff nowadays. I’m just happy to be one of the guys in our league from New York, to represent.”
“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.”
“A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.”
“New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.”
I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.”
— Truman Capote
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