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New York City15 quotes

This is New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. — Melvin Udall · 1997 There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning. — Howard Cosell · 1977 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 · 1925 New York was heaven to me. And Harlem was Seventh Heaven! — Malcolm X · 1965 New York is the greatest city in the world-especially for my people. Where else, in this grand and glorious land of ours, can I get on the subway, sit in any part of the train I please, get off at any station above 110th street, and know I'll be welcome? — Dick Gregory · 1962 The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost. — John Jay Chapman · 1909 All 15 quotes →

Decline of New York City2 quotes

There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning. — Howard Cosell · 1977 New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it. — Saul Bellow · 1970

Cities1 quote

He could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight. Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors! — Tom Wolfe · 1987

End of the world1 quote

Buildings will collapse, power plants will stop generating electricity. Generals will drop atomic bombs on their own populations. Mad revolutionaries will run in the streets, crying fantastic slogans. I have often thought that it would begin in New York. This metropolis has all the symptoms of a mind gone berserk. — Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1968

Nuclear holocaust1 quote

All dwellers in cities must live with the stubborn fact of annihilation... Of all targets, New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm. — E.B. White · 1949