Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Taylor

It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.

Blake Lively

You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.

Aaron Broussard

Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

David Letterman

New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.

Clint Walker

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

David Simon

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

Daniel Tosh

I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again.

David Byrne

It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that.

Anthony Bourdain

New Orleans is a glorious mutation

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Bertrand Russell

An individual human existence should be like a river

Chris Farley

I live in a van, down by the river!

Chris Farley

First off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river.

Deepak Chopra

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

Archibald MacLeish

They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.

Ben Okri

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.

Art Linkletter

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.

Deng Xiaoping

Cross the river by feeling for stones.

Lamont Bryant

Patrick is a qualifier. All this about whether Illinois has seen a transcript isn't the point. Those schools haven't seen a transcript, and they have offered.

Dana Wagner

From top to bottom, one through 12, our kids are very talented. We have 12 softball players, which is a nice feeling. A lot of them have played together on Perry's summer league (Northern Illinois Thunder) team.

Mary Burns

We're pleased that the Illinois legislature has seen the worth of this. And knows that this is the way we protect our children.

Dick Van Dyke

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

Nancy Barr

To us, it's novel. In Illinois (where we are from), this would not sell. They don't like this style.

Ron Gidwitz

We can turn this state around, working together to make Illinois a better place.

David Letterman

Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.

Alice Hamilton

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

Bill Robinson

What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.