There’s a reason NYC is the most written about city. Its air of possibility and endless opportunities are felt the moment you’re within the city perimeters. From the top of the Bronx to the bottom of Staten Island, New York is full a magic best expressed through beautiful works of art, literature and films.
These 10 quotes capture the essence of such magic one can only feel in NYC.
The most beautiful quotes about NYC
1. “The top of the Empire State Building is the nearest thing to heaven.” – An Affair to Remember
2. “New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.” – E.B. White
3. “The city so nice they named it twice” – Jon Hendricks
4. “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere” – Frank Sinatra
5. “…once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” – John Steinbeck
6. “I’m always surprised when anyone leaves New York. I mean where do they go?” – Samantha Jones
7. “I love New York on summer afternoons when every one’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
8. New York is not a city, it’s a world.” – Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
9. “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” – Fran Lebowitz
10. “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” – Georgia O’Keeffe