Hudson River Quotes

• There's a tendency for people in New York to think the world exists between the East and the Hudson Rivers, and I don't share that opinion. To me the world is a big place and I try to reach people everywhere. Listen, if I'm nothing else, I feel I've been a man of the people. I'm not going to pretend to be one of those snobby New York theater people.

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  Frank Wildhorn

  New York   Men   Thinking  

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.

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  Stephen Colbert

  Rivers   Jail   People  

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• All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

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  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Home   Rivers   Hudson River  

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.198, Best Books on

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• In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the fabled waters of the Hudson River, where she became a fireboat engineer. This is an unusual and fascinating book.

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  Jon Meacham

  Jobs   Book   Journey  

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• Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

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  Billy Joel

  Beach   New York   Holiday  

  "New York State of Mind" (song) (1976)

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• The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'

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  Regina Spektor

  Inspirational   Beauty   Beautiful  

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• God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

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  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Rivers   San Francisco   Hudson River  

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