“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 the beauty in the world.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“In New York, they like winners. They don’t like second place.”
– Eli Manning

“New York means so much to people. If you’re inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it’s been that way since the first skyscraper.”
– Griffin Dunne

“Coming to New York is like a big hug, everyone is so welcoming. There’s something about it here, everyone makes you feel so at home.”
– Archie Panjabi

“I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city.”
– Mikhail Baryshnikov