#new york

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#beautiful thing #city #map #most #new

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair. ↗

— Billy Graham

#i #impression #negative #new #new york

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. ↗

— John Guare

#city #george #george steinbrenner #i #i think

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. ↗

— John Guare

#believe #center #city #however #i

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted. ↗

— John Guare

#ballet #because #celebration #city #every

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive. ↗

— John Guare

#alive #ballet #because #city #dancer

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that. ↗

— John Guare

#always #ballet #body #city #how

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#anywhere #citizen #else #feel #had

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

#because #city #go #jew #medical

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#came #first #four #got #half