I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. – Milos Forman
Even though I live in New York City and frequently see and walk by icons like the Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge, I can’t help but stop and think how much I love the city.
Even with New York’s reputation of being too fast paced or filled with rude people (which isn’t entirely true!), there’s just something about the city. I feel like all of the people who said these New York quotes have also tried to somehow encompass their feelings of the city in one sentence. And one thing I know for sure is that you need to see it for yourself. It really does look better than on the postcards.
If you’ve never been to New York City, want to visit again or need a reason to visit the city, here are 25 New York quotes, plus a few that’ll work great as captions for all those New York moments that you just have to post on Instagram. #ilovenewyork
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New York Quotes
1. There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. – Simone de Beauvoir
2. More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm. – Marilyn J. Appleberg
3. New York provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing. – E.B. White.
4. New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it – once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. – John Steinbeck
5. If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe. – Ellen R. Shapiro
6. I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. – Milos Forman
7. London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. – Dorothy Parker
8. New York walking isn’t exercise; it’s a continually showing make-your-own movie. – Roy Blount Jr.
9. My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are. – Bill Murray
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10. People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new. – Lindsey Kelk
11. One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. – Tom Wolfe
12. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it. – Truman Capote
14. As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not a match in any other country in the world. – Pearl S. Buck
15. New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. – Alistair Cooke
16. I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘Well, I’m still in New York. Thank you, God. – Ed Koch
17. There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. – Elbert Hubbard
18. I’d rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world. – Donna Karan
Funny New York Quotes
19. On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. – Lewis Grizzard
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20. Something’s always happening here. If you’re bored in New York, it’s your own fault. – Myrna Loy
21. It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. – Agatha Christie
22. The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. – John Updike
23. When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. – Fran Lebowitz
24. When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie. – Ryan Adams
25. New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. – Russell Baker
New York Quotes for Instagram
A couple short and to the point quotes that you can use as Instagram captions along with a recent or #tbt picture from your trip to New York.
You haven’t lived until you died in New York. – Alexander Woollcott
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. – Georgia O’Keeffe
New York City is always a good idea.
A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else.
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. – Ayn Rand
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I left my heart in New York.
I love New York because within its borders you can travel the world. – Dennis Gonzalez
Concrete Jungle where dreams are made of, there’s nothing you can’t do. – Jay Z
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. – Peter Shaffer
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