New Orleans Quotes

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.

I was brought here [New Orleans] for a reason. I feel like I can make a tremendous impact, not only with the team but in the community.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

In contrast to New Orleans, there was only minimal looting after the horrendous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan - because, when you get down to it, Japanese aren't blacks.

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.

I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

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.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

ACORN is organizing to make sure the job of rebuilding New Orleans is done by the people of New Orleans and truly benefits the communities who have been hurt the most.

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.

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.

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

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.

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

New Orleans is just a doggone fun place to be.

I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something.

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.