Quotes
Quotes about New York
There was this to be said for New York: it was not dull
This thing they call love is as common around New York as it is in Sheboygan during the young onion season.
Air travel: Breakfast in London, dinner in New York, luggage in
Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm Sunday] has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actionsâeven parading without a permit! Also, when Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem," what was involved was direct action, an open confrontation and public demonstration of the incompatibility of evil with the Kingdom of God.
A college professor asked his class a question. If Philadelphia is 100 miles from New York and Chicago is 1000 miles from Philadelphia and Los Angles is 2000 miles from Chicago, how old am I.One student in the back of the class raised his hand and when called upon said "Professor your 44.." The Professor said "you're absolutely correct, but tell me how did you arrive at the answer so quickly?" The student said. "You see professor I have a brother, he's 22 and he's half nuts.".
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.âOrville Wright.
Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.â1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.
In New Yorkâwhose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shameânot an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.
A foe is New York's Governor Pataki of every child, animal and tree Iraqi.
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
New York is the Caoutchouc City. . . . They have the furor rubberendi.
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.
You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, in time a Vergil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. (after a game his team lost to the New York Nets)
When 100+ CEOs from top companies from around the world are on the wait list, that is 'stress!' So anything a manager can do to help one's colleagues is a must to survive. Paul J. Rosch, M.D., F.A.C.P., President of the American Institute of Stress, and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College -Wolfgang Hultner.
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. Of this he wrote to James Madison: As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.
The Nation's first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washington had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Ad
