Old New York Quotes
The best sayings about Old New York that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.
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There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.
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It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.
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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
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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.
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New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.
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New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.
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My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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New York is the only real city-city.
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In New York you've got to have all the luck.
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As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
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Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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