1.
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.
Colson Whitehead
2.
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
Sonia Sotomayor
3.
There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.
John Oliver
4.
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
Lily Tomlin
6.
Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.
Bob Dylan
7.
New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
Robert Orben
8.
New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
Edward Abbey
9.
To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.
Eliot Spitzer
10.
I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.
David Sedaris
11.
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'
Diane Mott Davidson
13.
I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker.
Sonia Sotomayor
14.
I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.
Hope Davis
15.
New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest.
Janet McTeer
17.
A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla!
Heather Thomson
20.
New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
Jeannette Walls
21.
Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.
Christine Lavin
22.
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.
Nicole Holofcener
23.
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
Joan Collins
25.
Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.
Christine Quinn
26.
I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
Kevin Sessums
27.
In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.
Edith Wharton
28.
I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.
Kara DioGuardi
29.
I'm a Tennessean at heart, and a New Yorker in spirit.
Rachel Boston
30.
I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.
Christine Quinn
34.
I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.
Moon Unit Zappa