Quotes About Creole

#1. One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

Frantz Fanon

#2. So I sat at the kitchen table chopping the "holy trinity" of Creole cuisine - bell peppers, celery, and onions -

Rysa Walker

#3. When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.

Nicole Ari Parker

#4. The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.

Jay McInerney

#5. Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

Paul Prudhomme

#6. New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

Poppy Z. Brite

#7. My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

Merry Clayton

#8. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.

Louis Armstrong

#9. New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

Constance Baker Motley

#10. holy trinity" of Creole cuisine - bell peppers, celery, and onions - while

Rysa Walker

#11. Pushed times make a monkey chew pepper.~ Creole proverb. (challenging times inspire unique actions)

Myra Jolivet

#12. I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.

Meta Golding

#13. When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

Klaus Nomi

#14. No day would be complete without chocolate. My favorite: Vosges Creole bar - it's dark chocolate with cocoa nibs. Holy Toledo, that thing is good.

Lisa Edelstein

#15. I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

Boozoo Chavis

#16. You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own.

Emeril Lagasse

#17. Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

Langston Hughes

#18. My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.

Meagan Good

#19. Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

Honore De Balzac

#20. A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

Honore De Balzac

#21. Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

Sarah Bernhardt

#22. Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#23. Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Edmund Burke

#24. Charles Kenny's Getting Better.17

Steven Pinker

#25. Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

James Lee Burke

#26. My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

Dominique Moceanu

#27. There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I read it, and thought, "Wow, I want to do this." I was on a plane to Hollywood in 22 hours. It was a B-movie and was elevated to an A-plus movie by sheer good taste.

Ridley Scott

#28. A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.

Lee Tamahori

#29. I can't have you," she said, trying to convince them both.
His fingertips slid over her silky skin as he pulled the strap on her tank top down her arm.

Jennifer Kacey

#30. Knowledge is a sage's best friend;
wisdom is his soul mate.
Virtue is a saint's best friend;
love is his soul mate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#31. It was his fault too," Fredrick said. "He never really asked her why. It was like he didn't want to know.

Matthew J. Kirby

#32. Yuh cyah vex when soca playin

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#33. Big government is the most corrupt industry in America.

Malcolm Wallop

#34. If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up the ladder by other men.

Maureen Dowd

#35. Sometimes bad is bad.

Huey Lewis

#36. She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

David Nicholls