Quotes about new-orleans
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 people proud
I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history. Tyler Perry
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 sea cities
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into preKatrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. - Joseph Romm210. The generations living today get to retrofit, reboot, and reenergize a nation. We get to rescue and reinvent the U.S. economy. Van Jones
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 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.
new-orleans cajuns cuisine
New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. Poppy Z. Brite
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.
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 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 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 towns
New Orleans in an amazing town. Benjamin Walker
new-orleans giving tragedy
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again. Charles Rangel
new-orleans air people
I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera. Brad Pitt
new-orleans trying treasure
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. Blake Lively
new-orleans years towns
For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town. Delta Burke
new-orleans
There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better. Bob Dylan
new-orleans talking new-day
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups. Branford Marsalis
new-orleans progress pace
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress. Allen Toussaint
new-orleans trying too-late
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now. Duke Ellington
new-orleans dies
You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans... Dr. John
new-orleans effort relief
It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough. Angelina Jolie
new-orleans rivers illinois
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. Clint Walker
new-orleans people united-states
People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans." David Simon
new-orleans mutation glorious
New Orleans is a glorious mutation Anthony Bourdain