Clint Walker Quotes

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

Illinois and Chicago have shown they can compete on the world stage, and we will continue to answer the challenge.

I love New Orleans. I did a movie there right before Katrina.

I love it here in New Orleans.

I grew up in Illinois.

New Orleans is thrilling. The history is as rich as the food.

New Orleans is great for a lot of the old-school charm and character.

I come from the city of New Orleans where it's live and vibrant.

I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.

The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.

Chicago is a great city.

I went to DePaul University Theatre School in Chicago, Illinois.

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

New Orleans is one of my favorite cities in the entire world.

I grew up in Illinois. If you were in Chicago, you were a Democrat. You get out to the suburbs and central Illinois, you're a Republican.

I'm not from New Orleans, never knew anything about New Orleans.

I'm from downtown New Orleans. Downtown consists of the 7th ward, the 8th ward, the 9th ward.

I'm home in New Orleans!

New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the tributaries from the various areas come in there also. It's also highly populated. So we're working a number of water rescues. We're working extremely hard to keep people safe and make sure that we're keeping the rule of law and keep people warm. It's been pretty cold.

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.