N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“New mothers are often told that once they've fed, burped, and changed their baby they should leave their baby alone to self-soothe if they cry because all of their needs have been met. One day I hope all new mothers will smile confidently and say, "I gave birth to a baby, not just a digestive system. My baby as a brain that needs to learn trust and a heart that needs love. I will meet all of my baby's needs, emotional, mental, and physical, and I'll respond to every cry because crying is communication, not manipulation.”
Source: Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages
“New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.”
“New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.”
“New names cost. They’d sacrificed things in their transfigurations. Tyrell Meeks. Imani Greene. Razz. Deirdre. They’d carved open their histories and offered up their guts.”
Source: The War Beneath
“New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.”
Source: Jackson Pollock
“New normals just kept resurfacing our lives, like a rearranged shore, wave after wave after wave.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.”
“New occasions teach new duties.”
“New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?”
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. —JOHN LOCKE”
Source: The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
“New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.”
“New opportunities beckon-The clients & partners I desire are attracted to me. They are seeking me out. They want what I have to give. They see my value & appreciate my skills and worth. I receive them, in joy-and with commitment. My energy is large, expansive, and receptive, from a knowing that I deserve Happiness and success.”
“New or long-term friendships are not sustained by relying on others to keep you on their auto dialer.”
Source: HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul
“New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.”
“New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.”
“New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you, teach you tricks of the heart you thought Tennessee Williams was just kidding about. And in August it could break your spirit.”
“New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.”
“New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.”
“New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born.”
“New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.”
“New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.”
“New Orleans in an amazing town.”
“New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.”
“New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults.”
“New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.”
“New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?”
“New Orleans is a glorious mutation”
“New Orleans is a unique environment.”
“New Orleans is just a doggone fun place to be.”
“New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'”
“New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."”
Source: Travels in Hyperreality
“New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.”
“New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do.”
“New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)”
Source: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
“New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.”
“New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.”
“New Orleans, it was often observed, was the first American metropolis to build an opera house, but the last to build a sewage system.”
Source: Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
“New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.”
“New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.”
“New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.”
“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.”
“New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious nut in the center.”
“New Orleans' rebellious and free-spirited personality is nothing if not resilient. And so the disruptive energies of the place- its vibrancy and eccentricity, its defiance and nonconformity, and yes, its violence and depravity- are likely to live on.”
Source: Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
“New Orleans restaurants are so good, you'll want to slap your momma, you neighbor's momma, and your neighbor's momma's momma.”
Source: Creating a Concierge
“New Orleans, the storm, Perry, the river: they all reminded me not to take anything for granted. It all washes away, and we are all washed away with it. So when then ground is steady and the sky is clear, we should breathe deep until our lungs inflate against our ribs and hold in that one breath until we are lightheaded with the privilege of being human. The absolute privilege of being human.”
Source: Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
“New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.”
“New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.”
“New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.”
“New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.”