Quotes of: New-orleans Keyword

Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has cultivated and supported a gen...

Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it ...

Jitterbug Perfume

Willard: [voice-over] The machinist, the one they called Chef, was from New Orleans. He was wrapped too tight for Vietnam; probably wrapped too tight for New Orleans. Lance, on the forward .50s, was a famous surfer from the beaches south of LA. One l...

Apocalypse Now

The carriage could only clop along at about ten miles per hour, which only accentuated Imogene’s excitement. She urged it onward: "Fly, horse, fly!

Imogene in New Orleans

Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Lo...

Billy Tauzin

I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.

Teena Marie

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

Bill Kreutzmann

New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.

Trombone Shorty

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

Harry Anderson

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

Harry Connick, Jr.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Tim Cahill

But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.

The Dollmaker

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

Laurell K. Hamilton

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

Drew Brees

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

Charles B. Rangel

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

Delta Burke

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Mortimer Zuckerman

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Bryan Batt

When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans ...

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

Michael Chertoff

I grew up in Louisiana - a little suburb right outside of New Orleans - and I wouldn't have it any other way!

Shelley Hennig