Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
“Suppose neutral angels were able to talk, Yahweh and Lucifer – God and Satan, to use their popular titles – into settling… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. — Clint Walker Copy Share Image
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
“Last month, an externally run audit of the New Orleans police department found that 46 percent of forcible rapes were misclassified.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part… — Dave Pirner Copy Share Image
What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing? — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a… — Chris Thomas King Copy Share Image
I'm from downtown New Orleans. Downtown consists of the 7th ward, the 8th ward, the 9th ward. — August Alsina Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“I cooked with so many of the greats: Tom Colicchio, Eric Ripert, Wylie Dufresne, Grant Achatz. Rick Bayless taught me not one… — Stacey Ballis Copy Share Image
Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like… — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
In 1996 I was working on a play in New Orleans, and they needed a drag queen. I offered to play the… — Bianca Del Rio Copy Share Image
We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The… — Ed Garvey Copy Share Image
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
“..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
It's crazy because I got traded for Chris Paul of all people. He was the guy who I looked up to who… — Kelly Oubre, Jr Copy Share Image
Music in New Orleans has always been the heartbeat that drives the city. It was that even before Katrina, and that's what… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit.… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
