Betty Smith Quotes

Summer had come to sit on New York's face.

I grew up in New York.

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

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

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London. But even the sh-tty diner and bars here are kind of exciting for me. Downtown is funky, West Village is beautiful with the cobbled streets, but I love going uptown because you then you go, "F-ck, I'm in New York!" You see all the skyscrapers.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there faster on the subway. I just love walking the streets of New York.

I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.

I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.

People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters.

East Side, West Side, all around the town

I always miss New York when I leave it.

I like shooting on location in New York City.

New York's got a little rougher edge to it than Chicago.

New York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing.

Different cities have different vibes to them, and New York is such a huge, thriving metropolis.

If I could live anywhere else in the world, I would probably want a place back in New York.

I've been to New York many times, and I've always noticed that there aren't that many French tucks around.

I appreciate the city of New York just embracing me, and Brooklyn in general.

Broadway's a little different from Houston, but it's not a big difference.

I like it when I go to a city and it puts its personality out there to be readily experienced.

I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.

Growing up so close to New York City, I always loved going to the city, but I'd be disappointed because songs about New York always made it seem so magical and perfect, and when I was younger, I just thought it was busy and dirty.