New York City

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

    “The movies were my textbooks for everything else in the world. When it wasn’t, I altered it. If I saw a college, I would see only cheerleaders or blonds. If I saw New York City, I would want to go to the slums I’d seen in the movies, where the tough kids played. If I went to Chicago, I’d want to see the brawling factories and the gangsters.”
    —Jill Robinson (b. 1936)

    “So much missing, no sense of self, no core, no trust. Only a deep hollow we need to fill.”
    —Sister Michele, Indian nun. As quoted in the New York Times Magazine, p. 35 (January 16, 1994)

    “All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitants ... do not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)