Looking for some inspirational New York quotes and Instagram captions? Here are a few of my personal favorites! Some of my favorites are listed here! I adore New York, that much is obvious. Given that New York is one of the best cities in the world, it is not surprising that the city has influenced so many well-known authors, singers, and artists.

I adore New York. Because New York is one of the world’s finest cities, it’s no wonder that so many notable writers, singers, and artists have written about it.

While some may anticipate the city’s downfall, we are confident that the five boroughs will remain. (And we’d be aware!) Every day, we write about it!) However, it’s difficult to express in a few words what makes this city so unique. Fortunately, many notable people have attempted it, ranging from great writers to politicians, activists, and several fictional characters. Here are some of the finest New York quote without further ado!  You must read this article: 60+ best New Year Quotes about Love

Best New York Quotes

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 beauty in the world. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening. John Lennon

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. James Baldwin

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

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 Rutherford

Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan! Walt Whitman

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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

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. Le Corbusier

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

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 Ephrom

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, and its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it – once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. John Steinbeck

I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it’s perfectly normal. Henrik Lundquist

Short New York Quotes

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

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

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

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. Simone de Beauvoir

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

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. Ayn Rand

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

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

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Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those extra ten years I’d like to spend in New York. Harry Ruby

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

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

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

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. Johnny Carson

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

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

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. Agatha Christie

I Love New York Quotes

I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it. Truman Capote

I love New York City. Li Na

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. Ayn Rand

I love New York. It’s one of my favorite cities. Victoria Azarenka

    There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. Simone de Beauvoir

I love New York. You’re never alone, but you’re always on your own. Leighton Meester

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York… it’s just nice to see a lot of familiar faces. Latrell Sprewell

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much. Beth Henley

I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I sa?. Lsayrell Sprewell

But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4 am and get a coffee, just because I could. Gail Porter

I love New York. But the energy is so intense John Galliano

I grew up in New York, I love New York. Caroline Kennedy

I don’t love LA. I love New York and Minneapolis, so if I have a choice I’ll stay in those places. Josh Hartnett

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things. Penelope Cruz

Funny New York Quote

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. – David Letterman

New York now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move. – David Letterman

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. – Douglas Adams

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. – John Updike

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book — and does. – Groucho Marx

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. – Johnny Carson

New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. – Russell Baker

What’s the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don’t yield to them? – P.G. Wodehouse

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…For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. – Evelyn Waugh

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

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

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

It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it. – O. Henry

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen. – Edward I. Koch

New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses. – Duke Ellington

New York Quote from Movies

So maybe it won’t look like you thought it would in high school, but it’s important to remember that love is possible. Anything is possible. This is New York. Carrie Bradshaw, Sex And The City

My father told me we were all born of blood and tribulation, and so then too was our great city. Amsterdam Vallon, Gangs of New York

The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich. Sophie, Frances Ha

Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms. Joe Fox, You’ve Got Mail

Here we are, Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity. Harry, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

You’re a New Yorker, that won’t ever change. You got New York in your bones. Spend the rest of your life out west but you’re still a New Yorker. James Brogan, 25th Hour

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I like the stink of the streets. It makes me feel good. And I like the smell of it, it opens up my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on. Noodles, Once Upon a Time in America

And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors. Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

I’m staying! You hear that, New York? THE FROG IS STAYING! Kermit the Frog, The Muppets Take Manhattan

New York, New York, is a wonderful town. The Bronx is up and the Battery down. The people ride in a hole in the ground. New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town! Gabey, Chip, Ozzie, On the Town

Well, like you said there are no friends on Wall Street. Right? Naomi Lapaglia, The Wolf of Wall Street

I’m at the corner of 1st and 1st… How can the same street intersect with itself? It must be at the nexus of the universe. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfield

New York Quote from Songs

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. -John Updike

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. -Ayn Rand, The Virtue Of Selfishness

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

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City? -Henny Youngman

Soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem -Take The A Train, Duke Ellington

I know the guy who writes all those bumper stickers. He hates New York. -Stephen Wright

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Like a momma you birth me, Brooklyn, you nursed me and schooled me with Hard knocks better than Berkeley. -Hello Brooklyn 2.0, Jay-Z

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. –Agatha Christie

Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you’ll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. -Moby

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is. -Henry Ford

Grow my own, my seeds shall be sown in New York City -Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters, Elton John

It’s autumn in New York. The colors are changing — yellow, the browns, the greens, the oranges. And that’s just the tap water. -David Letterman

One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. -Georgia O’Keefe

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, and I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did. -Alicia Keys