#orleans

These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#back #been #belief #bringing #challenges

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. ↗

— Allen Toussaint

#breathing #escapist #everything #garden #homegrown

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#ignatious-j-reilly #new-orleans #humor

The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#ignatius-j-reilly #new-orleans #humor

There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America. ↗

— Peter Max

#back #comes #highlight #like #new

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies. ↗

— Kitty Carlisle

#born #go #i #i was born #movies

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#like #new #new orleans #orleans #shore

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

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#again #areas #attention #coastal #country

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#because #better #city #common #could