Lower Manhattan Quotes

#1. In lower Manhattan there is an improbable point where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place. It was there that I met Veronica, on a snowy, windy night.

Nicholas Christopher

#2. It seems to me that the sad event of 9/11 has created a huge opportunity for the revitalization of lower Manhattan - new world class contemporary buildings, more open space and pedestrian connections, more sustainability, more culture and the rejuvenation of New York on the world stage again.

Paul Goldberger

#3. The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

Michael Bloomberg

#4. I do think we need more cameras. We have to stay ahead of the terrorists, and I do know in New York, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, which is based on cameras, the outstanding work that results from that.

Peter T. King

#5. Wanted to be home desperately, and when I said "home," that meant "wherever Larry is" more than Lower Manhattan,

Piper Kerman

#6. What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a magic castle girdled by water? Its very touch of jumbled jaggedness, its towering-sided canyons, are its magnificence.

Jane Jacobs

#7. In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

Christo

#8. There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

Daniel Libeskind

#9. Today. By the end of 1882, Edison's company is powering electric light for the entire Pearl Street district in Lower Manhattan.

Steven Johnson

#10. The official government radio station was still broadcasting that the New York Power Authority would have power back up to Con Edison and lower Manhattan

Matthew Mather

#11. For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001.

David Rockefeller

#12. I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.

John Liu

#13. The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses.

Susan Vreeland

#14. Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens. We must come to imagine liberty again, and believe that it can be a reality. We must recapture what it means to be free.

Ron Paul

#15. "Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness

Aeschylus

#16. Told you to buy a Mac.

Abigail Roux

#17. It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

Carl Jung

#18. I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.

Eddie Huang

#19. A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Bernard Williams

#20. When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.

Susan Vreeland

#21. If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.

Laozi

#22. Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.

Rainer Maria Rilke