50 Inspirational New York Quotes, U.S.A

50 Inspirational Quotes About New-York City

Do you need travel inspiration and wanderlust to daydream about New York? Then check out those 50 inspirational New York Quotes!

New York is a city full of surprises where you can’t catch a break; something is always happening, from Broadway shows to museums and beautiful foods. There is a lot to dream about in New York!

Those quotes about New York will make you want to jump on a plane immediately!

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50 Inspirational New York Quotes U.S.A

Alright, let’s jump straight into the good stuff because there are a lot of beautiful New York quotes. You’ll for sure find a quote that suits what you’re looking for. It could be just inspiration for your next trip or to use as an Instagram caption for your next post!


  1. “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, The Great Gatsby

2. “New York may be the city that never sleeps, but it sure does sleep around.” Brian Bendis

3. “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years”. Tom Wolfe

4. “My favorite thing about New-York is the people because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.” Bill Murray

5. ” 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

6. “Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” Mark Twain

7. “The glamour of it all! New York! America!” Charlie Chaplin

8. ” There is something in New York air that makes sleep useless” Simone Beauvoir

9. “A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.” Lady Gaga

10. ” 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



11. ” 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

12. “People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new” Lindsey Kelk

13. “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

14.”I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skylineAyn Rand

15. “Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book — and does

Groucho marx

16. “I went to New York to be born again” Kurt Vonnegurt

17. “A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe” Le Corbusier

18. “A true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding” John Updike

19. “New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One

20. “You haven’t lived until you died in New York.” Alexander Woollcott



50 Inspirational Quotes About New-York City

21. “New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something” Lindsey Kelk

22. “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough” Fran Lebowitz

23. “Sometimes I feel like my only friend, is the city I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn.” Mos Def

24. “That’s my favorite place in the world, so far, that I’ve seen. I haven’t travelled much, but I don’t think I’ll find anything to replace Brooklyn.” Marilyn Monroe

25. “If I’d lived in Roman times, I’d have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.”  John Lennon

26. “There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.” Elbert Hubbard

27. “Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark.” O. Henry

28. “When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.” Jimmy Breslin

29. “New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.” Thomas Jefferson

30. “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

And while you’re here, you should also check out my 20 photos to inspire you to choose NYC as your next destination!

Quotes About New-York

31. “If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.” Peter Shaffer

32. “In Rome I am weighted down by a lack of momentum, the inertia of a spent civilization. In New York I feel plugged into a strong alternating current of hope and despair.”  Ted Morgan

33. “New York is the only real city-city.” Truman Capote

34. “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

35. “Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.”  Albert Camus

36. “It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young” Joan Didion

37.”New York provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.” E.B White

38. ” For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.Karl Lagerfeld

39. “I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘Well, I’m still in New York. Thank you, God‘ ” Ed Koch

40. “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

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41. “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

42. “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

43. “Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.”  Irving Berlin

44. “New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.” David B. Lent

45. “New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.” Henry James

46. “If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.” Arthur C. Clarke

47. “New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.” Truman Capote

48. “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

49. “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

50. “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt” Georgia O’Keeffe


Voila! That’s a wrap on my 50 inspirational quotes about New York City; I hope they inspire you to visit New York when you decide to travel next!
Let me know your favourite quotes about New York City in the comments!


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12 Comments

  1. Love this one! “You haven’t lived until you died in New York.” Alexander Woollcott

  2. This is such a fun post! I haven’t been to New York yet but it’s definitely one of the top cities on my list. And I have saved your post for when I finally do 😀

  3. New York is such an amazing city. I’m not surprised it inspired so many great quotes! I lived in NYC for several years, and I love how there’s so much to discover no matter how many times you’ve been there.

  4. These are some fun quotes! So many great ones.

  5. skigrl985 says:

    Such fun quotes! I went to NYC a lot when I lived out east. Definitely one-of-a-kind place everyone should make sure to see!

  6. There are so many beautiful quotes here, Gatsby, Thomas and even Gaga! I love New York and this post is serious wanderlust!

  7. I love NYC and I love quotes! It’s hard to choose a favorite, but I really like: “A true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding” by John Updike. As someone who lived in NYC for several years I still miss the city and feel like there is nowhere else like it

  8. Love this collection of quotes! I like how varied they are and it really brings back memories of my trip to new york city.

  9. New York is one of the top cities I want to visit, I’m looking foward to the shopping. New York I will see you soon

  10. I absolutely love Georgia O’Keeffe’s quotes as well as her paintings of NYC Skyscrapers.

  11. Charu Goyal says:

    Quotes are always so helpful for travel pictures and I absolutely love all the ones you have mentioned here. Saving this for when I finally get to New York!

  12. “There is something in New York air that makes sleep useless.” This one is my favorite. I have never been to New York. But, the energy of the destination easily suggests that it is worth being awake in the lively city.

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