Ninth Ward Quotes

#1. Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

Majora Carter

#2. If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.

Billy Sothern

#3. Everything that burns, everything that rips me apart, I want to suffer with my body. I'd rather have a hundred wounds, whips, poisons - than this kind of suffering in the head, this phantom of suffering, which touches me softly and caresses me without ever really hurting.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. Yet they are unmoved when told of the cruel blow that fortune has dealt them, happy to see out their days on this unknown and unspoiled atoll. They will tell you that the view from their windows is infinitely more magnificent than Manhattan's glittering skyline.

Giles Milton

#5. I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

Rashida Jones

#6. Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Thomas Nagel

#7. I think fame became exciting for me in the late '90s because I could actually use it as a means to an end. I could actually have it help me serve my vocationfulness.

Alanis Morissette

#8. Do I feel pressure being a young player with high expectations? Nah.

Landon Donovan

#9. We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear.

Lorde