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Letter "C" » City of New York
«. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.»
Author: David N. Dinkins
(Mayor, Politician)
| Keywords:
accomplishment, City of New York, decent, face value, languages, neighborhoods, The Faces, The Names
«Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.»
Author: Jerry Rubin
(Activist, Founder)
| About:
America and Americans,
New York
| Keywords:
Big cities, Big City, City of New York, display, theater, The City, The Streets, type
«New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.»
«The city's got the right name-New York. Nothing ever gets old around here.»
«New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.»
Author: William E. Geist
| About:
America and Americans,
Conversation
| Keywords:
checking, City of New York, conversations, newspaper, overhear, overheard, overhears, restaurant, subway, subway train
«New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.»
Author: David Letterman
(Comedian, Host)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities,
New York
| Keywords:
City of New York, move around, moving around, sudden
«That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine.»
«I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
New York
| Keywords:
City of New York, get back, Hesitated, hesitates, hesitating, New York, New York City, York
«MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.He swore that all other religions were gammon, And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon. --Jared Oopf»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
City of New York, gammon, Holy City, Jared, Mammon, swore, The City of God, wore
«The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
bellies, Carcassonne, citadel, citadels, City of New York, enormous, fringe, fringed, fringes, howling, magnificent, mob, rag, raging, rags, skyscraper, skyscrapers, The Citadel, The City, unshaven
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