New York City

Famous quotes containing the words york city, york and/or city:

    “The energy, the brutality, the scale, the contrast, the tension, the rapid change—and the permanent congestion—are what the New Yorker misses when he leaves the city.”
    —In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Yet, when the city sleeps;
    When all the cries are still:
    The stars and heavenly deeps
    Work out a perfect will.”
    —Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)