“Welcome to New York! It’s been waiting for you.” Taylor Swift really said it for you. In New York, everyone is welcome, you can be anyone, you can want anyone. It’s the place of dreams and dreamers. So, today let’s celebrate this electrical city with New York quotes and captions.
Put these up as your Instagram caption or WhatsApp About to show off how much you love New York. Thing is, New York City never fails to captivate hearts and ignite imaginations. As I brought this post together, I couldn’t help but dream to be there.
So, whether you’re a native New Yorker, a frequent visitor, or simply someone who yearns to experience the magic of this urban wonderland, get ready to dive into the fascinating spirit of the Empire City!
New York Quotes
“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”
― Rick Riordan
“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
― Simone de Beauvoir
“New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
― John Updike
“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”
― Robert Moses
“I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.”
― Truman Capote
“The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.”
― Moss Hart
“When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.”
― Jimmy Breslin
“Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark.”
― O. Henry
“If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
“No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.”
― Michael Bloomberg
“Life in New York was like being in a giant bookstore: all these trillions of paths and possibilities drawing dreamers into the city’s beating heart, saying, I make no promises but I offer many doors.”
― Emily Henry
“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
― Nora Ephron
“The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.”
― Ed Koch
“New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.”
― Alistair Cooke
“The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.”
― Malcolm S. Forbes
“Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.”
― Dorothy Parker
“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new.”
― Lindsey Kelk
“New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum’s rush.”
― Damon Runyon
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”
― Tom Wolfe
“New York – that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.”
― David B. Lentz
“New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible – because it is large enough to be incurious.”
― Ford Madox Ford
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I shall never be quite happy until New York becomes a place to which I go often, rather than leave seldom.”
― Pamela Hamilton
“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does”
― Groucho Marx
“Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.”
― Jonathan Franzen
“New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.”
― Kurt Wenzel
“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”
― Fran Lebowitz
“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.”
― Ayn Rand
“New York is cool because you only start dating someone so that it’s easier to pay the rent.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva
“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.”
― Peter Cameron
“Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.”
― Joseph O’Neill
“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”
― Nora Ephron
“Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn’t got.”
― Robert Benchley
“I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City .”
― Spalding Gray
“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.”
― Dorothy Parker
“New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something”
― Lindsey Kelk
“New York is not a city. It’s a world.”
― Iman
“The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes.”
― Pete Hamill
“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.”
― John Lennon
“New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.”
― Truman Capote
“It couldn’t have happened anywhere but in little old New York.”
― O. Henry
“Everything in New York is a photograph. All the things that are supposed to be dirty or rough or unrefined are the most beautiful things.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald
“You haven’t lived until you died in New York.”
― Alexander Woollcott
“New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the centre of the world, the lion’s den.”
― Zubin Mehta
“You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.”
― Edward Rutherfurd
“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”
― Pearl S. Buck
“The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.”
― E.B. White
“It’s a city where everbody mutinies but no one deserts.”
― Harry Hershfield
“It wasn’t so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?”
― Kelly Braffet
“I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.”
― Frank Sinatra
“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
― Peter Shaffer
“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.”
― Le Corbusier
“While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.”
― Raquel Cepeda
“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”
― John Steinbeck
“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.”
― Mark Twain
“New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.”
― Russell Baker
“New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America.”
― James Weldon Johnson
“On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.”
― Lewis Grizzard
“New York is a rainforest — so dense and full of life.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
“I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.”
― Dylan Thomas
“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud.”
― James Baldwin
“Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.”
― Ann Douglas
“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”
― Agatha Christie
“I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.”
― Milos Forman
“New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac’s, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.”
― Duke Ellington
“Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.”
― Johnny Carson
“The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.”
― Philip Hone
“True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.”
― Jimmy Breslin
“Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those extra ten years I’d like to spent in New York.”
― Harry Ruby
“I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, ‘There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.”
― Robert de Niro
“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there…. Squares after squares of flame, set up, and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
― Ezra Pound
“I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it’s perfectly normal.”
― Henrik Lundquist
“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud.”
― James Baldwin
“New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.”
― Henry Ford
“When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.”
― Ryan Adams
“Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan!”
― Walt Whitman
“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe
“In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?”
― Mark Twain
“I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘Well, I’m still in New York’. Thank you, God.”
― Ed Koch
“Anything is possible. This is New York.”
― Carrie Bradshaw
“New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.”
― Delia Ephron
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
― Angela Carter
New York Captions
- Concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
- Lost in the city lights, found in the New York vibe.
- Taking a bite out of the Big Apple!
- Where skyscrapers touch the sky, and dreams reach new heights.
- Exploring the hidden gems of NYC, one street at a time.
- Wandering through the heartbeat of the city.
- From Central Park to Times Square, NYC has it all!
- Captivated by the energy of Manhattan.
- Beneath the hustle and bustle lies the soul of New York.
- Cityscape dreams and yellow taxi streams.
- In a New York state of mind, always.
- Exploring the melting pot of cultures, one bite at a time.
- From iconic landmarks to hidden gems, New York never disappoints.
- Finding beauty in the chaos of the city.
- Embracing the diversity and uniqueness of every street corner.
- Unleashing my inner urban explorer in the concrete wilderness of NYC.
- Dancing through the neon-lit streets of the city that never sleeps.
- Indulging in the juicy allure of the Big Apple’s flavors.
- Where aspirations climb skyscrapers, and ambition paints the skyline.
- Unraveling the city’s best-kept secrets, one hidden gem at a time.
- Getting lost in the symphony of bustling streets and vibrant energy.
- Immersing myself in the wonders of Central Park and the magic of Times Square.
- Enveloped by the electrifying pulse of Manhattan’s heartbeat.
- Unearthing the soul of New York beneath the surface of its ceaseless activity.
- Drowning in the dreamscape of towering cityscapes and buzzing yellow taxis.
- Forever captivated by the enchanting allure of the New York state of mind.
- Savoring the fusion of cultures, one delectable bite at a time.
- From iconic landmarks to hidden gems, New York unfolds its endless wonders.
- Discovering beauty amidst the urban symphony and chaotic harmony.
- Celebrating the kaleidoscope of diversity on every corner of the city.
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