“My New York is for a person who was born somewhere else and came to New York In quest of something.”
White, E. B “Here is New York”. The Place Where We Dwell; Reading and Writing about New York City. Eds. Juanita But, Mark Noonan, and Sean Scanlan. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2012. 39. Print.
“WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”
Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Signet Classics, 1949. Print.
Best sentence
It’s a great place for half sour pickles, chopped liver, millionaires, actors, dancers, akita dogs, nice leather good, fur coats, and baseball, but it’s a difficult place to have any kind of disability and, as anyone who has filled out the forms for a maternity leave lately will tell you, pregnancy is considered a disability.
Quindlen, Anna. “Pregnant in New York” . The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City. Eds. Juanita But, Mark Noonan , and Sean Scanlan. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2012. 20. Print
“I put in the effort,I find the spots, and then I rock them in my own special way.”
Anastasio, Joseph.“My Life In Graffiti”.The Place Where we Dwell; Reading and Writing about New York City. Eds.Juanita But, Mark Noonan, and Sean Scanlan. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2012. 139. Print.
Deyvi Cordova favorite sentence.
“ When I first entered this college, I had no ambition to pursue anything.”
-This sentence relates to me because when I first entered this college, I had no ambition to pursue anything.
Rahmani, Bilal. “Chronicles of a Once-Pessimistic College Freshman“. The Place Where we Dwell; Reading and Writing about New York City. Dubuque, IA: Kendal Hunt, 2012. 99. Print.
“The most important lesson was to measure myself not by sudden success or rapid failure but by my body of work.”
George,Nelson.”Fort Greene Dreams”.The place where we dwell: reading and writing about New York City. Eds. Juanita But, Mark Noonan, and Sean Scanlan. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2012. 35. Print.
“Oh what a tangled web I weave when I first practice to deceive.”
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive!”
Scott, Walter. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. London: J. Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, 1808. N. pag. Pennsylvania State University. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
“Maybe I become a New Yorker the day I realize that New York will go on without me.”
Whitehead, Colson. “The Colossus of New York” . The Place Where we Dwell; Reading and Writing about New York City. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2012. 9. Print.
Kadeem Grant favorite sentence
Again I opened my eyes and again I found myself here in church. Still here. I heaved a weary sigh.
Poole, Ernest. “The Harbor”. The Place Where We Dwell. Dubuque, IA: Kendell Hunt, 2012. 239. Print.
As I open my eyes once again from this in and out battle of sleep I still find myself in church bored wondering if this service is ever going to end.
“I think artists almost always end up turning to what’s around them, what’s in their environment or outside their window
Rothenberg Susan. “Urban art design”. The place where we dwell: reading and writing about New York City. Eds. Juanita But, Mark Noonan, and Sean Scanlan. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2012. 128. Print.
The reason I picked this is because I think that Susan is right when saying this. When I came to New York from my country Ecuador. I wanted to always draw buildings. I was amazed to see how many buildings surrounded me and I just felt like drawing. I remembered drawing for 6 hours straight in 7th grade the Empire State Building because I thought it was the most amazing building. In my country I couldn’t see huge buildings like the ones in New York. Art can make people happy or sad and I believe that this is what art is all about. Is a fusion of emotions and memories together
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