Top 131 Subway Quotes

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

I’ve worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a ‘sandwich artist’ at Subway.

The problem – not problem, but main thing – for me has been adjusting my kids… Four-year-old twins! I’m waking up in the morning for rehearsal, taking them to school, and then having to go to rehearsal – trying to do a 15-minute warm-up, even on the subway.

I think – I’m always interested in reaching people in different ways, not by – not by just standing on a – randomly on a subway platform.

I am a New Yorker! Mass transit is my sweet ride. I know the subway system like the back of my hand.

I am tired of people using ‘diverse’ to mean ‘of color.’ That’s not what that word means. ‘Diversity’ means people of all different races, all together – like a New York City subway.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

I’m happy to be the guy on the subway that people stare at and they just can’t quite place it. I don’t really like my life intruded upon too much. In a way, it’s kind of nice to not be all that well known.

I will take the subway and look at certain women and think ‘God, that woman’s story will never be told. How come that lady doesn’t get a movie about her?’

I just hope I can still take the subway, honestly.

These days, you’re always surrounded by music and sounds, whether you’re in the mall or a subway car.

Subway is a real point of pride. We have influenced the way people eat.

I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress… I got lost on the subway.

When my son first started to take the subway, my husband and I used to follow him to make sure he was all right, and then we had to stop following him and let him do it by himself.

With a track like ‘White Christmas,’ everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That’s kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

Being an actress wasn’t a plan at all, so what’s happened to me is very strange. Life isn’t very normal, even though I’m still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o’clock in the morning smelling nice and hanging on the rails with white make-up. I could see people nudging each other saying, ‘What is that?’

Since the very beginning, we wanted to create an experience for our guests: more than just a place to sleep. We wanted to cook breakfast in the morning; we wanted to provide a subway map for our guests. Pick them up from the airport.

One of the things that I love about crime novels is that you can turn the volume all the way up. If I can make somebody blow their subway stop, I win.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You’re on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

I’m practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don’t know what it is. But I’ve been a straphanger all my life; I know what it’s like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

I’ve taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

In 1946, the year I was born, Yankee Stadium was only 23 years old. But from my perspective as a boy, it had been around forever. At age seven, I saw it for the first time. As I grew older and was allowed to navigate the city’s subway system on my own, I went to Sunday doubleheaders with friends on a regular basis.

We’re not going to attract new businesses if we don’t have safe subway systems where everyday employees are able to get to their work in a safe manner.

There may be a perception that, with franchises, they’re all the same, so that limits the ability to experiment. But that’s not true. We’ve always kept two slots open on the menu of each Subway franchise – slots that franchisees can use to come up with their own sandwich ideas.

From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

I am a stereotypical northeasterner. I’m always in a rush. I’ve attracted stares from out-of-towners when I’ve shoved past someone blocking the subway door.

They used to tease me at the ‘Oprah’ show, ‘Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?’ And my answer is, ‘I can vary it a bit, but I’m never going to err from classic materials.’

I’ve been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

The subway in New York is a great social experiment; there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.

I can’t take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It’s a double-edged sword because I’m grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.

If you’re walking through the Union Square subway station – New Yorkers know it’s obnoxious and crowded, and in the summer it’s too hot – there are always amazing musicians playing, and sometimes there are multiple, different musicians set up in there.

I have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just sitting in my room all day – even my television wasn’t working!

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

My favorite Subway sandwiches are meatball and chipotle chicken.

In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it’s so evocative. You think it’s a literal subway for a few minutes before your teacher goes on and describes where it actually was.

I’ve been driving in the city for years because, as a stand-up in N.Y.C., you can perform at more comedy clubs a night if you have a car. Getting from club to club by subway is too slow at night and too expensive by cab. So, many comics live far out from Manhattan and drive in every night.

I was 14, and I left on my own. Living in a subway train, and police used to come in with a nightstick and say, ‘You can’t sleep here.’ I’d get up and go across the street, get on another train, and go back the other way.

Red Hook is cut off from the rest of the borough by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and has no subway access, forcing residents to rely on the bus, their feet or, for those lucky enough to afford it, a car.

When you’re on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can’t just stare at them.

I sometimes read on the subway, but I’m a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers’ conversations.

I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.

To a large extent, we’re working hard to fulfill the consumer demand for Subway sandwiches.

If people didn’t read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.

When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map.

I like L.A., I really do, but I’m really a New Yorker. In New York, there’s a feeling that you’re not praised or treated too preciously. No one ever feels too important because someone on the subway will reassure you that you’re not.

I love the comfort of daily life’s routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It’s no accident that my favourite word is ‘quotidian.’

I started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O’s. The sandwiches at Kevin O’s were a little like Subway before Subway – fresh baked bread. My best seller was turkey with cream cheese and artichoke hearts. I just made it up.

When I moved back to New York, I saw a lot of girls knitting on the subway, and it had a bit of a comeback.