Mayor Koch Quotes

#1. The mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven. - Author: Ed Koch

#2. Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems. - Author: Paolo Bacigalupi

#3. Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support. - Author: Ryan White

#4. You need to have dreams. Everything starts with a dream. - Author: Sheila Cornell-Douty

#5. Take the goods the gods provide thee. - Author: John Dryden

#6. 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. - Author: Ed Koch

#7. I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor. - Author: Ed Koch

#8. Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend. - Author: Henry B. Eyring

#9. 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. - Author: William James

#10. At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined. - Author: Philip Neri

#11. 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. - Author: Ed Koch

#12. 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. - Author: Anna Funder

#13. And if after all this you eventually fail; don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again. - Author: Richard Branson

#14. 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. - Author: Ridley Pearson

#15. 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. - Author: Janet Morris

#16. 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? - Author: Biz Markie

#17. 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. - Author: Jennifer E. Smith

#18. I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did. - Author: Ed Koch

#19. 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? - Author: Bon Iver

#20. I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever. - Author: Ed Koch

#21. 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 . - Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

#22. And by fix things, I meant ruin Avery's pretty face with a black eye. - Author: Richelle Mead

#23. 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 ... - Author: Tom Waits