#orleans

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#before #better #city #could #future

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#attorney #dad #district #district attorney #new

I hope to die in my sleep, when the time comes, and I hope it will be in the beautiful big brass bed in my New Orleans apartment, the bed which is associated with so much love. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#beauty

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#back #citizens #coming #contemplating #heard

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

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

— Charles Rangel

#escape #get #new #new orleans #orleans

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

#answers #assure #citizens #event #flood

Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.' ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#after #agent #another #been #believe

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#cuisine #new #new orleans #orleans #rather

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#confederacy #dunces #i #i think #new