Mayor Koch Quotes

#1. And if after all this you eventually fail; don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again.

Richard Branson

#2. I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex ... occasionally, stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls ...

Tom Waits

#3. And by fix things, I meant ruin Avery's pretty face with a black eye.

Richelle Mead

#4. Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse .

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#5. I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

Ed Koch

#6. I told you to be patient, I told you to be fine, I told you to be balanced and I told you to be kind. Now all your love is wasted? Then who the hell was I?

Bon Iver

#7. I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

Ed Koch

#8. There's a kind of unfamiliar electricity that goes through her at the nearness of him, and she can't help wondering if he feels it, too.

Jennifer E. Smith

#9. Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz?
And cell phones and beepers was the new trends?
When Koch was the Mayor and Reagan was the Pres?

Biz Markie

#10. It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance ... no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.

Janet Morris

#11. Nugget?" said Micah, offering a lump to Toby.
"Thanks," said Toby. He took a bite and chewed thoughtfully.
"I think maybe it is a squirrel." He said.

Ridley Pearson

#12. The mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

Ed Koch

#13. Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because it is depressing, and depressed people live shorter lives. Optimists and believers are happier and healthier in their unreal worlds.

Anna Funder

#14. When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

Ed Koch

#15. At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.

Philip Neri

#16. In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.

William James

#17. Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.

Henry B. Eyring

#18. I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Ed Koch

#19. The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

Ed Koch

#20. Take the goods the gods provide thee.

John Dryden

#21. You need to have dreams. Everything starts with a dream.

Sheila Cornell-Douty

#22. Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

Ryan White

#23. Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

Paolo Bacigalupi