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“I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.”

Wells Said Real Enough Helping Sky New York Building Needed Mountain Mouths No Friends

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.”

Humans I Can Feelings Natural Sky New York Building Goes On Bed Exciting Shopping Get Over Pencils Floats Taxi Builder Canyons Erosion

Book:Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

Source: Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

“This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.”

World Way Humor Funny Dies Race Cities Sky New York Exciting Yeah Shooting New York City Construction Crash Riot Places In The World Subway Sidewalk Cranes Blowing Up Asbestos Race Riots

Author:Denis Leary

“The day before I left to fly in New York, I went in the ocean and was just lying on my black looking up at the sky, which was that Hawaii blue. Just that moment was worth the entire thing. The ocean is everything. It can heal you.”

Moments Lying Left Black Sky New York Ocean Blue Heal That Moment Hawaii

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.”

Sky Minutes New York Crowds Curb Large Crowds

Book:The New American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

Source: The New American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind