Top 135 Yorker Quotes

I’m not a reporter but the ‘New Yorker’ treats everyone like a reporter.

I’m a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I’ve been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It’s my favorite.

As a New Yorker, I’m someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

You’ll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you’re in the belly of the beast when you’re in Union Square.

I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says ‘let’s do lunch,’ they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say ‘let’s do lunch,’ they’re just trying to say good-bye.

When you get into statistical analysis, you don’t really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by ‘The Onion’ – or be the subject of a cartoon in ‘The New Yorker.’ I guess I’m kind of an outlier there.

I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I’m writing for the ‘New Yorker,’ I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

In practice, I don’t only bowl yorker.

Carnegie was a life-long dream because I was a born New Yorker. I was born in upstate New York, and we’ve played Radio City, and we’ve played The Beacon, but Carnegie was this mystical place, you know?

Every hard working New Yorker, regardless of their income, race, or gender deserves an equal shot at attaining retirement security.

I’m a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

Activating is about changing people’s perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you’ve already seen it.

Having spent many summers in Southampton as a New Yorker, and as someone whose family has a place in Newport, I have a strong affinity for each place.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

A typical native New Yorker, I’m prone to wearing the city’s unofficial sartorial color: black.

I’m a New Yorker, and I live in the country.

In New York, all the crews read ‘The New Yorker.’ In Los Angeles, they don’t know from ‘The New Yorker.’

I’m a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.

I’m a New Yorker. I never thought I’d say that.

If I was not born in this lifetime in New York, certainly in a previous life, I was a New Yorker.

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

I’m a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.

The art editor in charge of the covers at the ‘New Yorker’ is Francoise Mouly. She’s very familiar with the eccentricities and personalities of cartoonists, so working with her is very easy.

I’m a New Yorker, you know.

I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.

When I was out in Portland there was a lot of really great things about it. But being home, I’m a New Yorker, and I think I’ve really enjoyed being back out here.

I have a very focused agenda. And I hold myself to the highest standards. I judge myself more harshly than any voter, or any New Yorker, will.

Technically, I’m a New Yorker.

Al Roker is one of the most sensible people you’ll ever meet. He’s raised two daughters and a son. And I love him, in that as jovial as he is, he’s a straight shooter. He’s a New Yorker, as they say.

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn’t grow up here.

While I’m a New Yorker at heart, and ‘Harlem Honey’ runs through my veins, Atlanta – its awesome residents and glorious landscapes – has a special place in the hearts of my family and I.

Let’s say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he’s the best.

I came out of a building and this woman stopped me, like, ‘You’re Miss Universe!’ And she was a New Yorker! I’m not used to New Yorkers being fans, because they’re so blase about it, you know.

I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I’m not a New Yorker at all, but I’m much happier in New York; I’ve always liked it better.

I live a very quiet life, although I’m very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

As a New Yorker you can’t help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

Like every New Yorker, I know this place is magic. I know this place is amazing. I know that we have come back time and time again from a great recession, from high crime rates, from 9/11, from crisis after crisis.

I grew up in New York City – I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

I’m so many different things in one. I’m like, really, truly a New Yorker.

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the ‘Times’ and ‘The New Yorker’ manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from ‘The New Yorker,’ ‘New York Times’ editorial page, or ‘The Washington Post.’

Publication in ‘The New Yorker’ meant everything, and it’s no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

I stay up on current events. I read ‘The New Yorker’ and ‘The Economist.’ I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. I studied literature in college, so I also continue to read poetry, literature, and novels.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I’m very happy here.

To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its students, and anything new.

Why on earth is the ‘New Yorker’ publishing puff pieces about pretty girls who go to parties? Does the ‘New Yorker’ ever run photos of cute boys just because they’re cute and they come from money and they go to lots of parties?

I’ve actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.

You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.

I am a real New Yorker… I didn’t go to Harvard, I didn’t go to Yale… I rooted for the Yankees; I didn’t root for the Boston Red Sox.

I’m a New Yorker, originally. I was raised in Jackson Heights. I went to P.S. 148 and then Newtown High School. If World War II didn’t come, I’d still be there in school. World War II saved me.

There are few people who exemplify the ideals of opportunity, entrepreneurship and commitment to the collective good than the great New Yorker and the face of the $10 bill, Alexander Hamilton.

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

I get ‘The New Yorker,’ and I’m usually about three issues behind. But I do catch up. The problem is that it always seems like homework, but then you start reading it and go, ‘Why am I not doing this all the time? These are such great stories!’ But, yeah, that stack gets so big and dense.

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Just because you read a report in the ‘New York Times,’ the ‘Economist,’ or, yes, ‘The New Yorker’ doesn’t make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams – really a top, top artist that the ‘New Yorker’ was lucky to find and employ.

‘All In’ is like the Giants motto, so I kind of took that, and I kind of used New York as the backdrop – how diehard New Yorkers are for their team. Me being a New Yorker, I just had to show my love for the city as well as my love for the New York Giants.

Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise their children – and you can rest assured that I will aggressively protect that right, not just on Earth Day, but every day.

Any New Yorker who even thinks of voting for Ted Cruz should have their head examined, Really, here’s a guy who refused to sign onto the 9/11 health care act for the cops and firemen. Here’s a guy who talks about New York values.

I’m constantly saying, ‘I read a fascinating article in ‘The New Yorker’… ‘ I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate ‘The New Yorker.’