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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've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

Quotes by Alison Brie

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. For me, I just love to work and I love movies.

Quotes by Alison Brie

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

Quotes by Alison Gopnik

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

Quotes by Alison McGhee

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is...

Quotes by Alison Owen

I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.

Quotes by Alison Sweeney

With celebrity being our new religion, it's increasingly difficult to start up on your own. Talented young designers are more likely to either go and work for celebrity brands or huge fashion houses than ever before.

Quotes by Alice Temperley

We need to make sure we're creating spaces to create new leaders and new types of leadership.

Quotes by Alicia Garza

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

Quotes by Alicia Keys

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

Quotes by Alicia Keys

When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from...

Quotes by Alicia Keys

I get really nervous when I'm performing or meeting new people.

Quotes by Alice Merton

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.

Quotes by Alice Merton

We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style...

Quotes by Alice Morse Earle

Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.

Quotes by Alice Morse Earle

The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.

Quotes by Alice Morse Earle

In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.

Quotes by Alice Morse Earle

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

Quotes by Alice Morse Earle

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.

Quotes by Alice Morse Earle

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

Quotes by Alice Morse Earle

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.