Quotes about new-orleans
new-orleans scripture sticks
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. Jelly Roll Morton
new-orleans citizens john-kennedy
The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. Jim Garrison
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 louisiana interest
I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans. Nicolas Cage
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 giving life-gives-you-lemons
A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris. Chris Rose
new-orleans people stories
Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now everyone's got something to say.
new-orleans laughing funeral
we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.
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The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.
new-orleans america boredom
If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose
new-orleans oxygen car
I witnessed a surgery on a patient from New Orleans who was in a car accident. He didn't have any flow of oxygen. He couldn't breathe. He couldn't get a good flow of oxygen, so they did a surgery on him right there, and I was just holding the IV up watching. Glen Davis
new-orleans people way
There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans. Jeffrey Robinson
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I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. James Gandolfini
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 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 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.
new-orleans looks devastation
There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad. John Hickenlooper
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 dancing without-music
What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing? Ellen DeGeneres
new-orleans states inconvenience
The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans. Richard Burr
new-orleans firsts sixteen
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans. Richard Brautigan
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
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 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 certain wanted
I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her. Ruta Sepetys
new-orleans people mind
What we're focusing on is the images that were in people's minds being replaced by fresh images, to make way for the rebirth of New Orleans. We're showing the other side. Steve Perry
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.