New York City

Famous quotes containing the words york and/or city:

    “New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world’s greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.”
    —Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)

    “The city mouse eats bread and cheese;—
    The garden mouse eats what he can;
    We will not grudge him seeds and stocks,
    Poor little timid furry man.”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)