Quotes About Levees

#1. Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

Karen White

#2. Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.

Nina Easton

#3. I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

John Breaux

#4. Save the stonewall to build the levees.

Lloyd Doggett

#5. 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

#6. The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.

Mitch Landrieu

#7. Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#8. Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

Joel Miller

#9. 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

#10. There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

Brian Ross

#11. Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against danger with building codes and levees, and by setting aside money to clean up afterwards.

Seth Shostak

#12. The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

George Carlin

#14. Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

Susan B. Anthony

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

William Congreve

#16. My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.

Bonnie Tyler

#17. [Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people.

George W. Bush

#18. Perhaps this is the only real evil left.

Anne Rice

#19. I don't like her. At all. So she gets a zero.

Toni Aleo

#20. Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

Brooke Shields