Top 95 New Yorkers Quotes

Too many upstate New Yorkers have to drive 30 minutes or more to see a doctor.
Chris Gibson
People say that New Yorkers aren’t friendly, but I think they’re more friendly than Londoners. Here there is a front-footed nature of Americans. You can go out on a night out and meet 10 random people and stay in touch with them, whereas that’s not going to happen in the same way in London.
Theo James
I can’t wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park – there’s so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.
Kara Lindsay
So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers.
Edward Burns
You may have heard me say that I am going to create a safe, fair, affordable city for all New Yorkers. But you have probably heard other candidates say that before. What I want you to know is that those will be my priorities because those issues aren’t political to me; they’re personal.
Eric Adams
I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the ‘Tale of Two Cities’ by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.
Bill de Blasio
Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college footba

Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
Omari Hardwick
I’m not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.
Ben Elliot
The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There’s real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don’t know how. They don’t know how to get involved.
Hill Harper
I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate – me – who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I’m the only one – I don’t care who gets in – who has that record.
Christine Quinn
I literally do not understand how New Yorkers deal with summer.
Tom Sturridge
Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.
Michael Bloomberg
As I’ve always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them.
George Steinbrenner
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.
Sloane Crosley
Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.
Vito Fossella
Oh sure, I really miss the changing seasons, because in Los Angeles you don’t really get that – and I feel like New Yorkers – and, really, all East Coasters – they really earn their good seasons. They earn when the weather’s hot; they earn when the leaves start to change.
Anthony Carrigan
I always had the most fun going to the beach on the weekends with my friends. In a way, we treated our beach style the way New Yorkers treat their street style, so I was always conscious of how I looked.
Izabel Goulart
I think, French girls, we are not the most stylish women in the world. For me, New Yorkers are more stylish, or even women here in London.
Jeanne Damas
As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren’t cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones.
Martin Cooper
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.
Stephen King
New Yorkers aren’t that friendly, but they’re still pretty friendly, and they’re hardworking, passionate people.
Kristaps Porzingis
Increases in stabilized rents impact rent stabilized tenants directly, but they also affect the affordability of all New Yorkers’ rents.
Letitia James
I’ve already begun to put pilot programs in place that give CUNY grads opportunities to get good tech jobs. We should expand on that so that New Yorkers are getting those jobs, because those jobs are probably one of the biggest 21st Century pathways into the middle class.
Christine Quinn
New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they’re not conscious of a scene, it doesn’t exist.
Sloane Crosley
Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way – as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago – they find a way to just carry on. But you’re stressed out. You’re worried, you know.
Mohsin Hamid
New Yorkers are tired of hearing about my personal life.
Jeanine Pirro
What’s so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.
Spalding Gray
Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility.
Christine Quinn
I’ve spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.
Wendy Long
We cannot justly seek to expand access to HASA and enroll more New Yorkers in the program, if we do not act to improve the program to ensure that tenants receive the benefits and services they are entitled to.
Letitia James
Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn’t put into words what I was feeling.
Christine Lavin
New Yorkers want to be compassionate, and they want to live in a city where homeless people aren’t stuffed into shelters, spilling out onto the streets. They also want a support system that works.
Letitia James
My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.
Michele Lee
New Yorkers may think they’re on some cutting edge, but that’s not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I’ve ever seen.
Carter Burwell
New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, ‘You’re terrific! You’re the nuts!’
Elaine Stritch
As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people’s lives.
John M. McHugh
We must create a digital platform that connects New Yorkers with training, basic skills and a universal job application.
Eric Adams
For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our iden

For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, ‘We’re east-coast. We’re New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.’
Kevin Bacon
As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I’m working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I’m on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
Barry McGee