579 Quotes About New-york-city

Over a decade of citywide rezonings, land speculations, and corporate bidding wars for available commercial space has produced a Darwinian habitat where corporate retail proliferates, and where mom-and-pops have become an endangered species.

I am old and all I have left is time. I don't mean time to live; I mean free time. Time to fill. Time to kill until time kills me. I walk and walk and think and think.

Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous.

Dead people are bad for business.” She gave a half smile. “Except for in your business.

I live my life in my comfort zone...

Stepping outside, all finished, gold porchlight kissed my forehead. The animated nighttime island was a concrete jungle wild with promise, and around any cobblestone corner my big break might exist, disguised as a simple café, waiting for me to open the door.

One of the many beauties of New York City, a beauty shaded with disappointment and resentment, was that you could stay in it for the rest of your life, avoiding your past, living another life than the one you thought you were going to live.

You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.

The refreshing serenity of mountains, streams and more forests in Pennsylvania gave way to small communities and the more thickly-settled towns of New Jersey. And finally, New York City. It took us six days to get there, and as I crossed the George Washington Bridge I remember thinking how amazing this was. I was back in New York. A city that takes no crap.I was back amongst Carefree Scamps who I could trust with my life