New York City

Famous quotes containing the words york and/or city:

    “New York is a woman
    holding, according to history,
    a rag called liberty with one hand
    and strangling the earth with the other.”
    —Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said] (b. 1930)

    “The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman:
    If it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole
    world.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)