Here are the best quotes about New York City that capture its spirit. You can use them to caption your photos, read them for inspiration before your trip, share them with someone who loves New York, or come back to them when you miss the city!
Two of the Best New York Quotes
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. It always believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. ~ Dorothy Parker
New York is a work of art in and of itself. It’s a masterpiece that shouldn’t make sense, yet somehow, it does. ~ Jacqueline E. Smith
Famous New York Quotes
When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie. ~ Ryan Adams
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. ~ Agatha Christie
It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world. ~ Susan Ertz
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. ~ Miuccia Prada
The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation than five times the population of any other portion of the country. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
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
In order to love New York, you have to hate it too. It’s like a love affair–you don’t hunger for it till it’s out of reach, and when you’ve had your fill, you need to separate. When you return, some of it is unfamiliar, but oh my god, the beauty of it. ~ Connie Eisenstat
Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. ~ John Steinbeck
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. ~ Fran Lebowitz
The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder. ~ Alex Baze
There’s something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better. ~ Amy Poehler
If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. And I can’t have nobody talking shit about my boyfriend. ~ Carrie Bradshaw
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. ~ Ayn Rand
Some More New York City Quotes
The skyline of New York is a monument of splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. ~ Ayn Rand
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. ~ James Baldwin
Sometimes, to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is the day. ~ Joseph O’Neill
I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork. ~ Madonna
More than anything else, New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm. ~ Marilyn J. Appleberg
New York is a city that plays hard to get. You want me? You’d better work for it. I love the dirt combined with the adventure, the endless exploring (look up! go down that weird block!), the surprising specificity that you can find (button stores! Filipino barbecue!), and, of course, the mind-boggling stream of humans. ~ Rony Vardi
Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams. Baby, I’m from New York, a concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you. Hear it for New York, New York, New York. ~ Alicia Keys
New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the center of the world, the lion’s den. ~ Zubin Mehta
I get out of the taxi, and it’s probably the only city that, in reality, looks better than on the postcards, New York. ~ Milos Forman
Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now that may be a bit much for those who don’t come from New York, but clearly, we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advances. ~ David Dinkins
A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe. ~ Le Corbusier
New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand. ~ David B. Lentz
You can try to change New York, but it’s like Jay-Z says: ‘Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up. There’s nothing you can do.’ ~ Liz Lemon
Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like traveling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar. ~ Kenneth Tynan
Guys like you can’t escape the city. Hell, you got a blood contract with this place. You’re married to the old girl. ~ Mickey Spillane
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. ~ Helen Keller
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. ~ Michael Bloomberg
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. ~ Tom Wolfe
In New York, the opportunities for learning and acquiring a culture that shall not come out of the ruins, but belongs to life, are probably greater than anywhere else in the world. ~ Thomas Wolfe
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. ~ Nora Ephron
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, The Great Gatsby
Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city drags itself awake on subway straps, and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded. ~ Maya Angelou
Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish. ~ Awkafina
New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water. ~ Truman Capote
A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans. ~ Lady Gaga
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. ~ Joan Didion
I’m bound to say that New York’s a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I’m a wealthy bird, so everything was fine. ~ P.G. Wodehouse
Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island. ~ Albert Camus
It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young. ~ Joan Didion
Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. ~ Nora Ephron
Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan! ~ Walt Whitman
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. White
By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience—if they did, they would live elsewhere. ~ E.B. White
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. White
On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.
People go to LA to “find themselves”; they come to New York to become someone new. ~ Lindsey Kelk
New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something. ~ Lindsey Kelk
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed…a race for rent. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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
While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me. ~ Raquel Cepeda
At night… the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a strong aspect of your personality. ‘A reality shaped around your own desires’ —there is something sociopathic in that ambition. ~ Zadie Smith
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
There is no place like it, no place within an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. ~ Walt Whitman
You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all. ~ Jonathan Lethem
The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger. ~ Frank Rich
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there…. Squares after squares of flame, set up, and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. ~ Ezra Pound
Most people are in New York because they need evidence—in large quantities—of human expressiveness, and they need it not now and then, but every day. That is what they need. Those who go off to the manageable cities can do without; those who come to New York cannot. ~Vivian Gornick
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. ~ Pearl S. Buck
The city was different back then–poor and crumbling–kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her. ~ Candace Bushnell
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance; each seemed to have different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes, and city parks. ~ Teju Cole
New York was the only place in America where a person could actually live a halfway livable life. ~ John Green
In the country, there are a few chances of sudden rejuvenation–a shift in weather, perhaps, or something arriving in the mail. But in New York, the chances are endless. ~ E.B. White
I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I’m still in New York. Thank you, God. ~ Ed Koch
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. ~ Gatsby
More Beautiful Quotes About New York City
Unlike Rome, New York has never learned the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. ~ Michel de Certeau
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 Lennon
“Empire” isn’t just about New York. It’s about hope. No matter where we’re from, we all want the opportunity to work hard and breathe life into our ambitions. ~ Alicia Keys
If I’d lived in Roman times, I’d have lived in Rome. Where else? Today, America is the Roman Empire, and New York is Rome itself. ~ John Lennon
The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories, not unlike mine. ~ Salman Rushdie
I was superstitious. Today was a Monday. I was born on Monday. It was a good day to arrive in New York City. No one expected me. Everything awaited me. ~ Patti Smith
I went to New York to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn’t like my parents. I didn’t have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philosophical value than in the United States…. and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark. ~ O. Henry
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. ~ Angela Carter
I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has. ~ Paul Auster
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. ~ Elbert Hubbard
When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When it’s 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. ~ Neil Simon
New York has a thousand universes in it that don’t always connect, but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, and read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don’t. ~ Jay Z
I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it’s perfectly normal. ~ Henrik Lundquist
New York is the meeting place of the people, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ~ Djuna Barnes
In New York, the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world. ~ Edna Ferber
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer…. In New York, I have always felt lonely, the loneliness of the caged animal, which brings on crime, sex, alcohol, and other madnesses. ~ Henry Miller
New York is appalling, fantastically charmless, and elaborately dire. ~ Henry James
New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City, and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am. ~ Delia Ephron
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. Wells
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. ~ Robert De Niro
Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone’s got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That’s a very big thing – the experience of not living where you started. It changes you in all kinds of ways. ~ Salman Rushdie
It took the city of New York to break them up. If that’s not romantic, the word must’ve changed meanings while I wasn’t looking. ~ Manuel Marrero
I grew up in New York State, not New York City, which is what everyone thinks when you say “New York.” ~ Amber Smith
That was New York: a whole cacophony of sounds and tastes that all somehow came together to form something beautiful. ~ Aishabella Sheikh
I think NYC definitely had something to do with my figuring out my life path. ~ T Cooper
Long NYC Quotes
One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It’s not like if you’re in Los Angeles, where everyone’s so actively working on cheerfulness and mental and physical health that if they sense you’re down, they shun you. Also, all that sunshine is a cruel joke when you’re depressed. In New York, even in your misery, you feel like you belong. ~ Mindy Kaling
The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn’t go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference. ~ Georges Simenon
Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New York — ’He was smiling. I stopped. ‘What do you feel in New York?’ he asked. ‘Perhaps you feel,’ I told him, ‘all the time to come. There’s such power there; everything is in such movement. You can’t help wondering—I can’t help wondering—what it will all be like, many years from now. ~ James Baldwin
And the truth is, Henry loves the store. Loves the smell of books, and the steady weight of them on shelves, the presence of old titles and the arrival of new ones, and the fact that in a city like New York, there will always be readers. ~ V.E. Schwab
New York has an energy that takes root inside of you. Even a transplant like me gets to know the different boroughs, like they’re living, breathing organisms. There’s nowhere else like it. The city becomes a character in your life, a love you can’t take out of you. The mysteriously human element about this place can make you fall in love and break your heart at the same time. ~ Renee Carlino
He kissed my mitten. “Then we’ll get you to New York,” he said. He described Manhattan as an epicenter of creativity, a midnight tar-paved island where the young artists of the world go to pursue themselves. Listening, growing warmer, I peered up through the tent’s mesh roof at faraway stars, faint glitter, giddy. ~ Aspen Matis
There’s an old saying about life in the two cities: That you should live in New York, but leave before you become hard, and live in California, but leave before you become soft. Speaking physically, this is bullshit: Humans are much better off being in shape than turning to jelly. ~ Jake Dobkin
I mean, it’s AWESOME, but it’s also a little bit “New York awesome,” you know? How do I explain how I felt about it? I guess … well … in New York City people spend ten years making something amazing happen, something that captures the essence of an idea so perfectly that suddenly the world becomes ten times clearer. It’s beautiful, and it’s powerful, and someone devoted a huge piece of their life to it. The local news does a story about it, and everyone goes “Neat!” and then tomorrow we forget about it in favor of some other ABSOLUTELY PERFECT AND REMARKABLE THING. That doesn’t make those things unwonderful or not unique … It’s just that there are a lot of people doing a lot of amazing things, so eventually you get a little jaded. ~ Hank Green
There was so much here, so much color and taste and light and motion. So much pain and so much hope. The city was ugly and beautiful at once, and it was always changing, always reintroducing itself to you; you couldn’t look away even for a moment, or you might miss the New York of today, which would be different from tomorrow’s New York and next week’s New York. ~ Katharine McGee
Short Quotes About New York
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. ~ Peter Shaffer
Everybody ought to have a Lower East Side in their life. ~ Irving Berlin
It couldn’t have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ~ O. Henry
The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years. ~ Philip Hone
In New York, you’ve got to have all the luck. ~ Charles Bukowski
Make your mark in New York, and you are a made man. ~ Mark Twain
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York is the only real city-city. ~ Truman Capote
New York is a sucked orange. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you leave New York, you ain’t going anywhere. ~ Jimmy Breslin
The glamour of it all! New York! America! ~ Charlie Chaplin
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. ~ Georgia O’Keeffe
Sometimes I feel like my only friend is the city I live in, beautiful Brooklyn. ~ Mos Def
Funny New York Quotes
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. ~ Rick Riordan
Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone’s got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn’t mean it’s an unfriendly place — just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I’m a social creature, but there are times and places you just don’t want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being. ~ Laura Anne Gilman
New York is the nation’s thyroid gland. ~ Christopher Morley
When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends: What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to anyone who was lucky enough to be unable to read. ~ G.K. Chesterton
But if I had to choose a single destination where I’d be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ~ Tim Gunn
To people from ‘Brooklyn-Brooklyn,’ North Brooklyn is really just South Queens. ~ Cat Agonis
You haven’t lived until you die in New York. ~ Alexander Woollcott
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
If you live in New York, even if you’re Catholic, you’re Jewish. ~ Lennie Bruce
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. ~ Jonathan Franzen
On a New York subway, you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. ~ Lewis Grizzard
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I’ve discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage. ~ Anna Quindlen
I knew I couldn’t live in America, and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City. ~ Spalding Gray
I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City. ~ Colum McCann
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn’t got. ~ Robert Benchley
New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual, but it’s not; it’s like everyone is just pretending as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September, it all gets normal again. ~ Peter Cameron
New York – The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say, “These New Yorkers don’t dress any better than we do. ~ Robert Benchley
If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was – and is – home plate. ~ Brock Yates
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. ~ Russell Baker
Skyscraper National Park ~ Kurt Vonnegut
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street, and nobody would notice. ~ Bob Dylan
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time, that’s not so bad, but New York City? ~ Henny Youngman
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. ~ Alistair Cooke
I once started out to walk around the world, but ended up in Brooklyn; that Bridge was too much for me. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
It’s a city where everybody mutinies but no one deserts. ~ Harry Hershfield
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it. ~ O. Henry
New York Song Quotes
Times Square can’t shine as bright as you. ~ Plain White T’s, Hey There Delilah
There’s nothing you can’t do, now you’re in New York! These streets will make you feel brand new, and big lights will inspire you. Let’s hear it for New York. ~ Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, Empire State of Mind
Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting? Autumn in New York, it spells the thrill of first-nighting. ~ Billie Holiday, Autumn In New York
New York, I love you, but you’re bringing me down. Like a rat in a cage. Pulling minimum wage. ~ LCD Soundsystem, New York, I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down
Famous New York Movie Quotes
The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich. ~ Sophie, Frances Ha
You’re a New Yorker, that won’t ever change. You got New York in your bones. Spend the rest of your life out west, but you’re still a New Yorker. ~ James Brogan, 25th Hour
And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors. ~ Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break! ~ Stan Lee, The Avengers
I’m staying! You hear that, New York? THE FROG IS STAYING! ~ Kermit the Frog, The Muppets Take Manhattan
Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms. ~ Joe Fox, You’ve Got Mail
Here we are, Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity. ~ Harry, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
I like the stink of the streets. It makes me feel good. And I like the smell of it; it opens up my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on. ~ Noodles, Once Upon a Time in America
One thing about New York City. You are here, or you are nowhere. You cannot achieve another level of anxiety, hostility, or paranoia anywhere else. ~ Gatsby Welles, A Rainy Day in New York
Contrary to popular New York myth, the ‘Times’ is not omniscient. ~ Dean Kansky, Serendipity
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Eh uh, no, make that he, he romanticized it all out of proportion. Better. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle and bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles. Ah, corny, too corny for, you know, my taste. Let me, let me try and make it more profound. ~ Isaac Davis, Manhattan
In Hollywood, actors learn to act from watching television. In New York, people learn to act by walking down the street. ~ Sidney Lumet
Zach: Tell me about the Bronx. Diana Morales: What’s to tell about the Bronx? It’s uptown and to the right. ~ Zach and Diana, A Chorus Line
New York, New York, a wonderful town. The Bronx is up and the Battery down. The people ride in a hole in the ground. New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town! ~ Gabey, Chip, Ozzie, On the Town
I’m at the corner of 1st and 1st… How can the same street intersect with itself? It must be at the nexus of the universe. ~ Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld
To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London. ~ Theo James
New York is not as big a city as it pretends to be. ~ Michael O’Hara, The Lady from Shanghai
Don’t you just love New York in the fall? ~ Kathleen Kelly, You’ve Got Mail
This city, this whole country, is a strip club. You’ve got people tossing the money, and people doing the dance. ~ Ramona, Hustlers
I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. ~ Michael Douglas, Hollywood, and the other Hollywood
This is New York City. A man can do whatever he wants. ~ Bloomingdale’s Cop, Moscow on the Hudson
NYC Quotes for Instagram
Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York.
Dear New York, I’ll never get over you.
I want to live as many lives as there are in New York City.
Welcome to New York – it’s been waiting for you. ~ Taylor Swift
I love New York City – it’s the loudest city on the face of the Earth.
If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City.
The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. ~ Pete Hamill
What’s the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don’t yield to them? ~ P.G. Wodehouse
I have a wonderful make-up crew. They’re the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ~ Bob Hope
I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.
It’s a city where everybody mutinies but no one deserts.
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
All great art is born of the metropolis. ~ Ezra Pound
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams. ~ Herb Caen
New York is an exciting city where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. ~ Johnny Carson
People in this cold city are frozen for death by happy holidays.
Hello, NYC, your night is a firefighter in my heart.
The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty. ~ Frank Luntz
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’ ~ Robin William
New York Captions
The sky’s the limit!
Wanderlust and city dust.
Welcome to New York.
Good morning, New York City!
Once upon a time in New York.
New York is always a good idea.
A New York Minute.
My heart burns for the city lights.
Let the city set you free.
Uptown things and downtown dreams!
I left my heart in New York City.
In New York, auditioning for the future.
These lights will inspire you.
New York is not a city – it’s a world. ~ Iman
The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.
This is the only city with a special flair.
Keep life simple in this beautiful city.
Give my regards to Broadway.
I love New York.
I heart New York.
New York City girl
I am in the New York state of mind.
Summer nights and city lights.
New York City is my goal.
I’m in New York – the city of dreams!
All you need is love and skylines.
Quite simply, I was in love with New York.
Meet me in New York.
Hustle like a New Yorker.
London is a mystery, NYC is an explanation.
The city that never sleeps.
New York State of mind.
You can leave New York, but it will never leave you.
Late nights, bright lights.
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Take me to New York.
Welcome to the concrete jungle.
I fell in love. His name is New York.
Enjoying every New York minute.
Hello, New York, you’re looking beautiful today! How do you always manage to look beautiful
I’m just a little apple in the Big Apple.
Happiness is… holding tickets that say “New York.”
New York is calling, and I must go!
I’d rather be in New York.
Forever a city girl.
This is the city that I adore the most.
Breathe in the New York air
New York Puns for Instagram
A trip to NYC can be very taxi-ng on your wallet
Taking a bite out of the Big Apple
The East Coast is the Best Toast
What a brew-tiful city!
First, do no Harlem
That’s some bull
In winter, New York makes a great frost impression
After sightseeing all day, I’m Central Park-ing myself down for the rest of the night
A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else
Snow happens weather you like it or not
Seeing Greene
In winter, NYC is the city of tights
You don’t like my puns? How cold
New York City is a tourist trap I don’t mind being in
We’re all out of Stock
In winter, New York makes a great frost impression
Someone asked me for directions, so you can call me a real New Yorker
Times Square heals all wounds
I’m so happy we MET
Don’t harbor any ill will towards me
Hey, New York! Words can’t espresso how much you mean to me
New York, I hope our paths croissant again
That’s quite a Roosevelt you have going on
The cold here is snow joke
Central Park always perks me up
I’m not happy, but I’m not Madison
Queens for a day
Love at frost sight
I think I was made to line in New York
New York, I miss you snow much
I’d really lake to live by Central Park
Walking in a winter punderland
Stop Yankee-ng my chain
Someone tell Gossip Girl I’m here right now.
Finally made it to the Statue of Liberty. It’s a boat time!
The views from the Empire State couldn’t be any NYCer.
No crepes til Brooklyn.
Meanwhile, in New York…
Times Square Captions
Times Square’s so bright, I need to wear shades.
Meet me in Times Square.
It’s hip to be in Times Square.
First Time-rs Square
You can’t stop traffic on Times Square. ~ Sydney Pollack
I want Times Square! ~ Betty Who
How can you be organized when you’re in Times Square? ~ Mary-Kate Olsen
It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world. ~ Timothy F. Cahill
There’s no place like Times Square.
There’s nothing like the feeling of being in Times Square for New Year’s Eve. ~ Kimberly Guilfoyle
I’m waiting for the Times Square characters to start dressing as me. ~ Scott Rogowsky
I don’t mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique. ~ Lee Ranaldo
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. ~ Jimmy Fallon
From time to Times Square.
They really dropped the ball this year.
Well, would you look at the Times?
Quotes about New Yorkers
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. ~ John Updike
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. ~ Bill Murray
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasm. ~ Irwin Shaw
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens. Whatever interests the rest interests me. ~ Walt Whitman
You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall. ~ Edward Rutherfurd
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. ~ Johnny Carson
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does. ~ Groucho Marx
Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night. ~ Dorothy Parker
When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere – wherever people are living out their lives. It’s a city with a million centers. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York, it is not likely to be interesting. ~ Jimmy Breslin
People in New York love having roof parties. ~ Todd Barry
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 Moses
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. ~ Dylan Thomas
Famous New York Sayings
Only in New York!
If You Can Make it Here, You Can Make it Anywhere.
Anything Can Happen in a New York Minute!
The City So Nice, They Named It Twice.
The City that Never Sleeps.
New York is the Safest Big City in the Country.
New York City is the Capital of the World
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