New Orleans Quotes

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?

While watching the New Orleans Saints (on television), I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn't stop laughing for an hour.

What we're focusing on is the images that were in people's minds being replaced by fresh images, to make way for the rebirth of New Orleans. We're showing the other side.

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.

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

I've been in some beautiful places, but the prettiest sight is flying back to New Orleans. Being able to look down and say, 'I know where I am now.'

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.

There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now everyone's got something to say.

You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.

Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.

Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.

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."

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.

Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

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.

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.

It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough.

I'm home in New Orleans!

New Orleans is a glorious mutation

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

New Orleans in an amazing town.

You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.

I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera.

New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman?

In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter.

There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me