#new orleans

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

#anywhere #being #else #geographical #get

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. ↗

— Frank Yerby

#above #almost #broadened #continent #fifteen

I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style. ↗

— Jelly Roll Morton

#chicago #city #credit #dollars #even

New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#country #critical #everyone #fear #how

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 Louisiana. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#brightest #building #city #codes #come

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#away #build #businesses #channel #highest

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

— Delta Burke

#come #had #i #just #like

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#freedom #good #i #i love #live

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white? ↗

— Sean Hannity

#buses #had #his #mayor #new

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#beautiful #call #culturally #diversity #focused