St. Roch Quotes

#1. This book is dedicated to Thomas Coleman, a retired longshoreman, who died in his attic at 2214 St. Roch Avenue in New Orleans' 8th Ward on or about August 29, 2005. He had a can of juice and a bedspread at his side when the waters rose. There were more than a thousand like him.

Chris Rose

#2. We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities

Hillary Clinton

#3. Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire

#4. Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league.

John Henry Carver

#5. Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Anna Seward

#6. The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.

Charles Spurgeon

#7. It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.

Bob Dylan

#8. If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.

Jonathan Franzen