Parish Quotes

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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

- Martin Scorsese

And we got calls today, `We need you ... to go to a place in St. Bernard Parish. It`s a hospice, ... and there are 10 dead and there are 10 dying.` But those people were probably alive yesterday or the day before.

- Bruce Jones

I`m not trying to be insensitive to other parishes, but I was elected to represent the residents of Jefferson Parish, ... And as long as hurricane season is still open, we have to protect this parish.

- John Young

I didn`t want people being trapped in Jefferson Parish without these services.

- John Young

There are many trained people, both as staff and volunteers, who are willing and able to step forward to meet some of the needs of each parish,

- Kevin Anderson

(The parish) stands to benefit and must be positioning itself to take up the opportunity accruing from the potential that will come with the island hosting its share of the World Cup events.

- Courtney Brown

You really can`t take that particular waste stream out of the affected parish,

- Joe Brown

They`re claiming the majority of employees are displaced. Waste Management is a large enough company that if they really valued the ability to do work in Jefferson Parish, they would have been able to maintain service here. They had the ability to bring trailers in, ... To me, Waste Management has absolutely zero planning for these types of disasters.

- Chris Roberts

A lot of work is already done, ... The parish ordered immediate, quick repairs. We were the first parish in the entire region to get up and running.

- Chris Roberts

They were there in the first 24 to 48 hours, ... Not our request, they just came. They got on a bus and headed up. During 9/11 they were cooking gumbo and feeding us. So, when we got a request for Jefferson Parish, I think that is one of the reasons we came.

- Thomas Graham

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

- Richard Morris

They made us get out of the parish, and I wanted to take my animals (but)they shot my animals right in front of me,

- William Miller

As a parish priest you`re formed much by the people you serve and live with.

- David Reed

I wouldn`t say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They`re my parish. And it`s a responsibility that I enjoy.

- Akhmed Zakayev

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

- Alex Saitta

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

- Alex Saitta

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

- Alex Saitta

We have now approximately 90 National Guard troops in the parish. They`ve been a tremendous help.

- Arlene Melton

Cleco has 2,000 miles of lines in the parish

- Arlene Melton

In my 45 years in Sabine Parish I`ve never seen anything like this,

- Arturo Bermea

They are no doubt the three largest employers left in Jefferson Parish.

- Ashura Jenkins

Much of the work was done by the parishioners themselves, ... It speaks well of the parish, as a group, working together as a community of faith.

- Bahaeddin Adab

We were up and running quickly. Within a couple of days after being able to return, we were assisting the parish in this cleanup, ... I would maintain that the response of the parish is unfair. Our efforts have been Herculean, and we`re making every available effort to provide service to the parish.

- Barbara Semedo