Quotes About Leaving New York

#1. The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

John Curran

#2. In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering.

John Updike

#3. I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

Lou Reed

#4. Start spreading the news, I am leaving today.
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.

Frank Sinatra

#5. I was only going to stay six months. I stayed three years, and I never stopped thinking about leaving. But when I left, I left my entire life behind. I have to explain to you why I no longer live in New York, but first I have to explain to myself why I stayed so long.

Eula Biss

#6. [R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#7. It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

Adam Smith

#8. I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

Danny Brown

#9. It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.

Michael Chabon

#10. Each day, I read the New York Times before leaving for the theater. And I have this standing assignment: connect the world of Anthem to the late breaking events of the day.

Jeff Britting

#11. I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.

Lucy N. Colman

#12. I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it.

Sissy Spacek

#13. No man can use his brain to think for another.

Ayn Rand

#14. In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

Marilyn Monroe

#15. Little said is soon amended.

Miguel De Cervantes

#16. A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

William Cowper

#17. I used to think that distance makes the heart grow fonder, but I guess it's more so of a case-by-case thing when I look at it now. It especially doesn't help when most of the time, when forced to reckon with the realities of things, you have your illusions occupying you.

Lauren Lola

#18. "Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.

Jim Gaffigan

#19. Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago.

Andre Dubus

#20. I want to do my part in fighting for America's future. That's why I have decided to run for the United States Senate.

Sarah Steelman

#21. I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.

Cass Gilbert

#22. Jem looked at ease in a white sweater and dark jeans. His black hair had a single, dramatic streak of silver in it that stood out against his brown skin.

Cassandra Clare

#23. A lifetime of planning can accomplish nothing. Ten seconds of bravery can conquer a lifetime.
-Racquel

Brandy Nacole

#24. Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York ... New York ... New York, New York - Fred Ebb/John Kander

Karla M. Nashar

#25. I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

Diane Sawyer

#26. On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. New York was the nowhere he had built around himself, and he realized that he has no intention of ever leaving it again.

Paul Auster

#27. I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

Cecily McMillan

#28. We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

Adam Mansbach

#29. There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

Nathan Sawaya