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Yorker Quotes

Robert Moses quote: "Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a..."
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
People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. David Letterman
Edward Burns quote: "So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the..."
So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers. Edward Burns
I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker. Ed Koch
David Sedaris quote: "At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I..."
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface. David Sedaris
As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book. J. D. Salinger
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
John Updike quote: "The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living..."
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. John Updike
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
I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I'm an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I'm spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I'd like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races. Toni Morrison
The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it. Tina Fey
New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness…. There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly. Christopher Morley
Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent. Van Wyck Brooks
Edith Wharton quote: "In the summer New York was the only place in which one could..."
...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers... Edith Wharton
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! Patrick Henry

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