New York City

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

    “The gay world that flourished in the half-century between 1890 and the beginning of the Second World War, a highly visible, remarkably complex, and continually changing gay male world, took shape in New York City.... It is not supposed to have existed.”
    —George Chauncey, U.S. educator, author. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, p. 1, Basic Books (1994)

    “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)

    “Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.”
    —Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)