Best new-york & south Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!”

People Thinking Kind Stills America New York South Indian Chicago Asian Exotic Indian Food

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.”

Thinking Stuff Interesting Company Technology Five Four Seeing New York South Pockets Chicago Valleys Boston Seattle Silicon Silicon Valley Getting Started

Author:Eric Lefkofsky

“Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.”

Soul Body Light Land New York South Ships Grass Covered Shore Tides Corn Manhattan Ohio Sparkling Prairie Hurrying Missouri Spires

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867

“If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.”

Ifs Doe States Light Attention New York Higher Enlightenment West South East Perceive California Enlightened Fluid Bonding East And West

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.”

Ifs Problem Happens New York Months South Nonsense South Africa Flavor Flavor Of The Month

Author:Athol Fugard

“I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park - Central Park is a much safer place.”

Ifs States New York South Parks Permit Colleagues Concealed Dakota Central Park South Dakota Concealed Carry

Author:John Thune

“Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.”

Thinking States Moving Dark Creativity Middle New York Bed Areas South Labels Islands Massive Flaws Chicago Southern Urban Romanticism Fertile Weirdness Kentucky Progressivism Louisville

Author:Jim James

“A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.”

Said School New York High School South Visiting

Author:Rosemary Daniell

“New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.”

Today Song New York Speech South Versions Verses Freedom Of Speech 1960s New York Times Suppression

Author:Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

“If I were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities, I'm never bored. I would also say New York for the breathtaking skyline formed by the buildings and the fast pace of the city, whatever the time of day.”

Ifs Cities New York Building Activity Areas South London Theatre Bored Pace Gallery Breathtaking Time Of Day Skylines

Author:Robert Pattinson

“On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.”

World Children New York Trade South My Children Village September World Trade World Trade Center Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:Yochai Benkler

“When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.”

Source: Southern ladies and gentlemen

“That could sound arrogant, I guess, but sometimes I feel like I have a bit of a Zelig thing. I'll blend in wherever. I'm from the South, so I'll have a Southern accent when I'm home. But if I'm up here in New York, I have a British accent.”

Ifs Feels Sometimes Home Bits Sound New York South British Southern Arrogant Accents Southern Accent

Author:Michael Shannon

“The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.”

Wells Enough Eye Care Missing New York Promise South Dust March Up And Down Temperature Sirens Wenches

Author:E. B. White

“I actually like south Florida. I never lived in a more interesting place than this. I've never met a wider range of people. I guess when I came here I thought there were Cubans and then there were people from New York and that was Miami. Now I know that it's Cubans, people from New York, and some people from New Jersey.”

People Knows Interesting New York Mets South Range Florida Jersey New Jersey Miami Cuban Interesting Places South Florida

Author:Dave Barry

“I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.”

“I love New York for being New York. I love L.A. for being L.A. But when it comes home, I'm a Midwest, South type of dude. I like open roads, I like to drive, and it may not be as fast, but it's definitely a place where you get to appreciate a lot more. Not saying that you don't up here, but that's not what I'm accustomed to.”

May Home New York Type Appreciate South Coming Home Accustomed Midwest I Love New York Open Road

Author:Nelly

“Being a military child, we moved a lot and we developed different vernaculars from moving from the south, to the Midwest, and seeing the world. Going from New York to California and from Jamaica Queens to the South, I was always the new kid, or had the army crew haircut. I expected people to pick up on me. My brother kinda stole all of my old jokes. He got his inspiration from me.”

“My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like that old Black voice, and I love the sort of old Black man with a corncob pipe, sitting there telling a whopper.”

Men Whole Father Black Voice New York Grew Grew Up Sitting South Pipe Whole Family Stepfathers

Author:James McBride

“In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel. There was no, there was no in between. And when I got to New York all the other musics that's in the world just came into my head whether it was the classics, jazz, I never knew what jazz was about all, had heard anything about jazz.”

World Country Kids Used Heard New York Involved Jazz South Western Excited Hillbilly

Author:Ben E. King

“New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.”

Looks Beautiful New York South Wasteland

Author:Matana Roberts

“I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had immigrant parents. On the other hand, it was a bit conservative - in a sort of wholesome, Midwestern, small-town sense. I never met a single writer until I moved to New York City for college.”

Hands Bits Parent Cities New York College Mets Towns Moved South Conservative Hated Immigrants New York City Diverse Closest Small Town Closest Friends Immigrant Parents Pasadena

Author:Porochista Khakpour

“In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart. That suburban American experience can both protect and stunt you. I couldn't wait to move to New York to become the person I've always wanted to become.”

World Persons Wanted Moving Artist Felt Waiting Minutes New York Protect South Invisible Fifteen Downtown Worlds Apart Pasadena

Author:Porochista Khakpour

“I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres, whereas I was only exposed to the poppiest of pop music so I never had this negative connotation towards pop music. That's not South African music having an effect on me, but just how international music was filtered through South Africa affected me. It gave me a not-negative connotation towards pop music growing up.”

Feels Kids Cities Growing Up Growing Effects New York Grew Grew Up Negative South International Pops Affected New York City Exposed South Africa Pop Music Connotation Subculture African Music

Author:St. Lucia

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