Quotes about new-orleans
new-orleans people going-out
Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want. Chris Paul
new-orleans people baghdad
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad. Christopher Hitchens
new-orleans san-francisco numbers
Well, it seems that one day Dylan was drivin' up to San Francisco from New Orleans or somewhere, when our record [House of the Rising Sun] came over his radio. When it was announced he said to Joan Baez -- who was with him at the time -- 'This'll be the first time I've heard this version', although it was number one in the States. So he listened to it, stopped the car, ran round the car five times, banged his head on the bumper and began leapin' about shouting 'It's great! It's great!' Eric Burdon
new-orleans historical fiction
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans. Isabel Allende
new-orleans cities people
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before. Harry Connick, Jr.
new-orleans government people
I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world. Harry Connick, Jr.
new-orleans looks week
The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days? Lynn Westmoreland
new-orleans appreciate stuff
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. John Goodman
new-orleans smell guy
If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here. John Goodman
new-orleans people different
In Canada I'm not dealing with people who are bringing in baggage, they just get it. But New Orleans will be a bit different. If there's a group of people who have a right to be bitter, it's the people of New Orleans. Lewis Black
new-orleans government cities
How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane. Newt Gingrich
new-orleans rocks people
The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better. Mitch Landrieu
new-orleans cities white
One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city. Mitch Landrieu
new-orleans cajuns cuisine
New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. Poppy Z. Brite
new-orleans united-states mardi-gras
An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans. Mark Twain
new-orleans cooking heritage
In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage. Paul Prudhomme
new-orleans cities people
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France. Paul Prudhomme
new-orleans born
I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies. Kitty Carlisle
new-orleans louisiana interest
I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans. Nicolas Cage
new-orleans cards investment
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system. Mark Skousen
new-orleans born raised
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19. Patricia Clarkson
new-orleans world heritage
If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear. Ray Davies
new-orleans yield history
There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants. Thomas Jefferson
new-orleans hurricanes hateful
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, butGod did. Richard Baker
new-orleans stuff vices
There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa. Ruben Blades
new-orleans community louisiana
Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically. Sandra Bullock
new-orleans way looks
I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels. Sandra Bullock
new-orleans culture birth
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. Wendell Pierce
new-orleans community world
New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do. Ryan Reynolds
new-orleans hands long
Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it? Tennessee Williams
new-orleans white people
So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white? Sean Hannity
new-orleans texas people
Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent. Scott McClellan
new-orleans wind atheism
Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His plans. Had the residents of New Orleans been content to rely on the beneficence of God, they wouldn't have known that a killer hurricane was bearing down upon them until they felt the first gusts of wind on their faces. And yet, as will come as no surprise to you, a poll conducted by The Washington Post found that 80 percent of Katrina's survivors claim that the event only strengthened their faith in God. Sam Harris