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.
To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.
Eliot Spitzer
9.
I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.
David Sedaris
10.
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
11.
New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
Jeannette Walls
12.
Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.
Christine Lavin
13.
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.
Nicole Holofcener
15.
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
Joan Collins
16.
Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.
Christine Quinn
17.
I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
Kevin Sessums
18.
In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.
Edith Wharton
19.
I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.
Kara DioGuardi
20.
I'm a Tennessean at heart, and a New Yorker in spirit.
Rachel Boston
22.
I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.
Christine Quinn
24.
I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.
Moon Unit Zappa
26.
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'
Diane Mott Davidson
28.
I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker.
Sonia Sotomayor
29.
I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.
Hope Davis
30.
New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest.
Janet McTeer
32.
A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla!
Heather Thomson