Levee Quotes

#1. O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

William Congreve

#2. Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

Paul Hawken

#3. The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.

Douglas Brinkley

#4. And so they couldn't have known exactly how despicable a lie it was when the president told the news media later that week that nobody could have predicted the levee breaks.

Tom Piazza

#5. There isn't a woman in the world who doesn't have demons of some sort. No matter who I end up with, it's always going to be a struggle." I kissed her hair again, letting it linger as if my lips were able to transfer the truth of my words. "Levee, I'd like to struggle with you.

Aly Martinez

#6. Soon levees up and down the river were popping like buttons off a tight shirt. At Mounds Landing, Mississippi, a hundred black workers, kept at their posts by men with rifles, were swept to oblivion when a levee gave way. The coroner, for reasons unstated, recorded just two deaths.

Bill Bryson

#7. Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

Don McLean

#8. The levee had always been my beach, the world beyond it, my ocean. That's as close as it got here, anyway. No waves, no dolphins, no white sand, no sea gulls. If you were lucky enough, though, every once in a while you did get to see a crane, or a beaver.

Laura Miller

#9. Henry stilled and peeled his shirt over his head, announcing, "Threesome."
"Excuse me?" Sam questioned as Henry advanced.
"Fine, twosome, but Levee gets to watch. She is my best friend, after all.

Aly Martinez

#10. You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

Billy Tauzin

#11. I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Bryan Batt

#12. Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

Paul Farmer

#13. We are horse folk, and that means more than we think it does.

Elizabeth Carlton

#14. The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.

Jose Serrano

#15. Huguette was a quiet woman in a noisy time.

Bill Dedman

#16. Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Maxim Gorky

#17. You are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person.

Greg Behrendt

#18. Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

Napoleon Hill

#19. Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.

Sathya Sai Baba

#20. There must be a million women throwing themselves at you. How are you not married with a boatload of kids by now?"

His smile spread impossibly wide. "I hadn't met you yet.

Aly Martinez