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New Quotes

On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.

Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.

I'm a New Yorker, man. I'm a Knicks fan.

Quotes by Jesse Itzler

Do everyday things in a new way to get the brain thinking in new ways.

Quotes by Jesse Itzler

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

Quotes by Jesse Jackson

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

Quotes by Jesse James Garrett

Shakespeare in the Park is one of the greatest gifts in New York City. You just have to wait for the tickets - and it's worth the wait.

Quotes by Jesse L. Martin

The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.

Quotes by Jerry Yang

I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

Quotes by Jerry Zucker

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Quotes by Jerzy Kosinski

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

Quotes by Jesmyn Ward

My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.

Quotes by Jesmyn Ward

It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have...

Quotes by Jess Weixler

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Quotes by Jessamyn West

Chicago seems to follow New York, and coming from New York and being in real estate, I worry about things happening in Chicago that have happened in New York. I've seen a great city like New York go downhill. It...

Quotes by Jerry Reinsdorf

It's not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.

Quotes by Jerry Reinsdorf

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

Quotes by Jerry Rubin

Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied...

Quotes by Jerry Saltz

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

Quotes by Jerry Saltz

Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh...

Quotes by Jerry Saltz

I think we can bring a new retail language to Rockefeller Center that would really change Midtown.

Quotes by Jerry Speyer

When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.

Quotes by Jerry Spinelli

Frequently Asked Questions

What ties these quotes together under "New"?
Most reference New York specifically - growing up in the Bronx, moving back to the city after college, and comparing Berkeley to "Paris or the south of France or New York." For more quotes about places and cities, see Like quotes.
Is there a quote here about loving a city?
Yes: "I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York." For more quotes on cities, see City.
Does this page include reflections on moving somewhere new?
Yes, one quote describes returning to New York after college "where I didn't really know that many people," and feeling that the world felt "very atomized" - a reflection on starting over in an unfamiliar place.
Is there anything here about personal background or upbringing?
Yes, one quote traces a New York upbringing directly: "I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York." For more first-person reflections, browse Me quotes.
Where can I find more quotes about affection for a place?
The Berkeley/Paris comparison quote on this page touches on that feeling - for more, try Love quotes.

If starting over resonates with you, our Love quotes and Like quotes touch on related feelings of attachment and preference in unfamiliar circumstances.