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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.

At the organisational level, our party has to really develop a new style of connecting with the people. We have to also look at the way we project our programmes, our policies.

Quotes by Sonia Gandhi

Whenever there is something revolutionary and new, there is opposition. There are difficulties in all parties, perhaps in my party, too.

Quotes by Sonia Gandhi

Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.

Quotes by Sonia Levitin

I grow old learning something new every day.

Quotes by Solon

I used to be very shy. I hated going to a new classroom and having to make new friends, meet new teachers, and adjust to a new environment.

Quotes by Son Ye-jin

All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation gap, one needs to adapt to the new while retaining the goodness of the old.

Quotes by Sonali Bendre

I've battled my weight since I was 12. My parents took to us to New York once, for a holiday, and there I'd buy fruit loops from a 24x7 shop and sit down with my books. I never played; I...

Quotes by Sonam Kapoor

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.

Quotes by Sofia Vassilieva

You grow as a person with every new experience.

Quotes by Soha Ali Khan

I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast...

Quotes by Sloane Crosley

Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.

Quotes by Sloane Crosley

Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it...

Quotes by Sloane Crosley

There is no such thing as a crazy dog person in New York. Are there people who are completely insane about their dogs? Hordes. But cat people may as well have whiskers and tails themselves. That's because their pets' lack...

Quotes by Sloane Crosley

Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's...

Quotes by Sloane Crosley

I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.

Quotes by Sloane Crosley

I'm an online shopper, so that's what I do in my free time. A lot of online shopping, and I just like to see new styles and new people.

Quotes by Sloane Stephens

I was born in New Delhi in 1976.

Quotes by Smriti Irani

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

Quotes by Slavoj Zizek

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

Quotes by Sivamani

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

Quotes by Skeet Ulrich

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.