All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.
Catherine Zeta-Jones

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. Henry

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
Marilyn Hacker

If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
Oscar De La Renta

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
Howard Stern

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Yakov Smirnoff

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
John Jay Chapman

New York is our home.
Christo

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Billy Joel

If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.
Mark Messier

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.
Mark Messier

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Tom Wolfe

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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher Morley

I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.
Mary Tyler Moore

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
Jessica Hagedorn

New York is nice, but I don't like it as much as I used to.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I came to New York late; I was already past 30.
Jeffrey Tambor

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
Anna Quindlen