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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 fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.

Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.

Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four...

Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.

Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

I associated excellence in writing with New York City.

Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.

Quotes by Gary Allan

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.

Quotes by Gary Allan

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

Quotes by Gary Burton

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the...

Quotes by Gary Burton

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Quotes by Garrett Hardin

I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as...

Quotes by Garrett Hedlund

I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.

Quotes by Garrison Keillor

From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.

Quotes by Garry Disher

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

Quotes by Garry Hynes

My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front...

Quotes by Garry Marshall

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Quotes by Garry Trudeau

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Quotes by Garet Garrett

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.