Orleans Quotes
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Orleans Quotes & Sayings
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Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.
— John Kennedy Toole
I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels.
— Sandra Bullock
Buddy ran down the road, turned into another street, and vanished as if he had never been there, like another ghost from New Orleans's past.
— Hunter Murphy
But still . . . there was a charge in the air. It was Mardi Gras in New Orleans, after all.
— Penelope Douglas
Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.
— Peyton Manning
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
— Billy Tauzin
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
— Patricia Clarkson
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.
— Anthony Bourdain
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
— Harry Anderson
People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."
— David Simon
New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.
— David Letterman
New Orleans is kind of dark in a very beautiful way.
— Nicole Anderson
From my friend, Brig. General Ezell Ware, Jr., CA Nat'l Guard, Dec.Keep on going till you get there, then keep going. — Tracey Richardson
Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico.
— John Kennedy Toole
New Orleans may be too seductive for a writer.
— Walker Percy
I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.
— Anne Rice
An iron? Was he kidding? God
— Suzanne Johnson
There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.
— Jeffrey Robinson
What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
— Wynton Marsalis
I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
— Harold Perrineau
The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new.
— Hunter Murphy
New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.
— Wynton Marsalis
You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.
— Russel Honore
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
— Paul Prudhomme
A man who forgets his past and allows the flame of the things he loves to be extinguished has no future.
— T.J. Fisher
Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an ecolectic (sic) reading list.
— George W. Bush
The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.
— Michael Davis
We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.
— Stephen Stills
We are generally punished by where we have sinned.
— Elisabeth Charlotte D'Orleans
Iffin we meant to see each other, again, it gonna happen.
— Jason Medina
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse ...
— Harry Connick Jr.
I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
— Amanda Palmer
After the storm, many citizens left New Orleans to live elsewhere, but those who stayed were determined to rebuild. They loved their city.
— Howard Schultz
So, Ray... you seem like a cool cat," she said. "Are you into alternative lifestyle parties?
— Jason Medina
He really didn't care, but he tried to pretend he did.
— Jason Medina
I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.
— John Kennedy Toole
Paid way too much. But when you see a stuffed pelican, you better grab it 'fore somebody else does.~New Orleans Requiem — D.J. Donaldson
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
— Francoise Sagan
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
— Mark Skousen
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
— Tyler Perry
Sometimes, the choices we make have devastating consequences
— Jeanette Vaughan
Welcome to Tears of Crimson, the New Orleans Vampire Bar.
— Michelle Hughes
There's so much music going on in New Orleans.
— Anthony Hemingway
I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.
— Ruta Sepetys
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.
— Christopher Hitchens
New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.
— Andrei Codrescu
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Tennessee Williams
If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
— Ray Davies
Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.
— Louis Armstrong
It seemed each band member was in his own world. Yet, each was in tune with the other.
— Jason Medina
New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.
— Anne Rice
But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn't die here. They were just forgotten.
— Amanda Stevens
Come on in. The water's fine.
— Jason Medina
There are still a lotta nice Sicilian boys in New Orleans. (A nonna's advice to a zitella.)
— Traci Andrighetti
This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.
— Wynton Marsalis
Funny thing about love, ain't it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn't enough.
— Eden Butler
New Orleans is a unique environment.
— Steve Earle
For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.
— Delta Burke
Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.
— Kay Goodstadt
I left my soul at Tears of Crimson, the New Orleans Vampire Bar. If found, don't return follow me into the endless night.
— Michelle Hughes
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
— Nora Ephron
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
— Richard Brautigan
An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
— George Wein
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
— Paul Prudhomme
What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.
— Elisabeth Charlotte D'Orleans
Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.
— Suzanne Johnson
I love New Orleans.
— Chris Paul