History Quote by Ray Nagin Download Open image “Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history.” — Ray Nagin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
To me, the idea that any kind of disaster helps create a nation seems a ridiculous one. There was no family in the house… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact. — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
One of the best moments I've ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about. — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally. — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
Candor is the only way I know how to do it. I'm way too old to change. At the end of the day, I… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
I want to continue to stay plugged into New Orleans and help people who are still struggling with the recovery here, and then, if… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives. — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
We're out of nuclear crisis mode and into normal, day-to-day crisis mode. — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
The reality is this city will not be the same for a while, ... We're not saying bring New Orleans back today. — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image