Yorker Quotes - page 4

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day. (Tamara Tunie)
New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone. View quote
Vanessa Ferlito
You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing. View quote
Lauren Bacall
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize. View quote
Eliot Spitzer
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that. View quote
David Sedaris
Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth. View quote
David Sedaris
I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter. View quote
David Sedaris
I'm a New Yorker, you know. View quote
Edward Norton
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. (Moby)
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here. View quote
Joan Collins
The Hiroshima people's experience, is a picture of what our whole world is always poised to become, a backdrop of scarcely imaginable horror lying just behind the surface of our normal life, and capable of breaking through into that normal life at any second.”-The New Yorker, February 1, 1982. View quote
Jonathan Schell
I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. View quote
Edward Said
I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite. View quote
Ali MacGraw
As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works. View quote
Natasha Lyonne
When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from. View quote
Al Franken
A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning. View quote
R. L. Stine
I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower. View quote
Derek Jeter
Today, we are all saddened by the loss of Brooke Astor, a quintessential New Yorker and one of the great philanthropists of our time. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers were the beneficiaries of Mrs Astor's good will and kind nature, many unaware of the origins of the donations. Her contributions reached a wide variety of causes; The New York Public Library, and the entire city, would not be what they are today without her gracious support. (Brooke Astor)
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national. View quote
Salman Rushdie
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. View quote
David Bowie
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there. View quote
Nate Silver
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001. View quote
Michael Bloomberg