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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.

Paul Daigneault of The SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston gave me my Equity card playing Marta in 'Company' right before I graduated Boston University. He knew my next stop was New York. I cannot say enough good things about the...

Quotes by Sara Chase

I'd just love to have an audience and it's the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

Quotes by Sara Gilbert

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

Quotes by Sara Paretsky

I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and hearing the accent. You are a sponge at that age, soaking everything up.

Quotes by Saoirse Ronan

I feel as an actor it is very essential to develop new hobbies at least once every two to three months, so that you are pretty well acquainted with all the new things around you.

Quotes by Saqib Saleem

I was a New York Jets fan growing up. My dad said I used to sit there at a very young age and watch football with him and tell him, 'I'm going to play for that team one day.'

Quotes by Saquon Barkley

I'm a New York Giant, playing football. I've been wanting to do this since I was a little kid, to play in the NFL.

Quotes by Saquon Barkley

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

Quotes by Sanjay Dutt

I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.

Quotes by Sanjay Dutt

The new era of bottom-up politics has had politically paradoxical consequences in China. While it has made the system of governance more participatory, it has made the central government less authoritarian and, therefore, more bureaucratic and cautious.

Quotes by Sanjaya Baru

With new oil and gas discoveries, Africa's energy exporters will have to invest in defence capability and work with other Indian Ocean powers to ensure security of sea lanes.

Quotes by Sanjaya Baru

I've seen new actresses do one show and disappear or struggle for years to get their next break. I've been fortunate enough to have four shows back-to-back as lead.

Quotes by Sanjeeda Sheikh

Whenever I work on a new project, I work as if this is my first show and I have to put all my effort.

Quotes by Sanjeeda Sheikh

I am always up for new and different things, regardless of the medium.

Quotes by Sanjeeda Sheikh

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Quotes by Santiago Cabrera

If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.

Quotes by Sandra Tsing Loh

I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.

Quotes by Sandra Tsing Loh

I saw these new kinds of stores: the Body Shop, the Sock Shop, and I thought to myself, 'I can do that.'

Quotes by Sandro Veronesi

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

Quotes by Sanford I. Weill

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

Quotes by Sanford I. Weill

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.