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Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
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
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted. -- Mario Batali
The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area. -- Billy Tauzin
Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy. -- Jimmy Buffett
New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. -- Poppy Z. Brite
New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. -- Mark Twain
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. -- Poppy Z. Brite
An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans. -- Mark Twain
The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black. -- Charles Rangel
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. -- Tennessee Williams
There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America. -- Peter Max
What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch. -- Harry Anderson
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. -- Anthony Bourdain
I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me. -- Drew Brees
And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively. -- Jimmy Buffett
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
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
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
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. -- Constance Baker Motley
One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again. -- Ray Nagin
And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them. -- Jimmy Buffett
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. -- Boris Vian
The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days? -- Lynn Westmoreland
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. -- Charles B. Rangel
My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families. -- AnnaLynne McCord
There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad. -- John Hickenlooper
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. -- Allen Toussaint
I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves. -- Anika Noni Rose
My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game. -- Michael Irvin
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. -- Ruta Sepetys
When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street. -- Richard Simmons
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles. -- Ornette Coleman
In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas. -- J. R. Moehringer
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans. -- Mark Twain
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. -- Frank Ocean
After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986. -- Steve Sabol
I love New Orleans. -- Chris Paul
I'm home in New Orleans! -- Ani DiFranco
New Orleans in an amazing town. -- Benjamin Walker
Oh, New Orleans is such freedom. -- John Kennedy Toole
New Orleans is a glorious mutation -- Anthony Bourdain
New Orleans is a unique environment. -- Steve Earle
I'd like to move back to New Orleans. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. -- Bob Dylan
New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth. -- David Letterman
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse... -- Harry Connick, Jr.
There's so much music going on in New Orleans. -- Anthony Hemingway
New Orleans is just a doggone fun place to be. -- Archie Manning
New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement. -- Tom Piazza
I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans. -- Nicolas Cage
A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris. -- Chris Rose
What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing? -- Ellen DeGeneres
What we do in New Orleans, man - we party! -- Jamie Foxx
New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.' -- Jonah Hill
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19. -- Patricia Clarkson
New Orleans is kind of dark in a very beautiful way. -- Nicole Anderson
Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman? -- Carlos Mencia
The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans -- Taryn Manning
New Orleans is kind of dark in a very beautiful way. -- Nicole Anderson
The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans. -- Taryn Manning
You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans. -- Russel Honore
I think New Orleans is the best city in the United States. -- Erin Heatherton
New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party. -- Kodi Smit-McPhee
Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea! -- Nikki Sixx
The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans. -- Richard Burr
I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again. -- Daniel Tosh
Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
I really missed being in New Orleans, but I'm one of the lucky ones. -- Robby Albarado
You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans... -- Dr. John
There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better. -- Bob Dylan
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. -- Steve Lacy
You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up. -- Tom Robbins
New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities. -- Brad Pitt
New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country. -- Wynton Marsalis
New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies. -- Kitty Carlisle
New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans." -- David Simon
The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States. -- Wynton Marsalis
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. -- Jelly Roll Morton
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking. -- Fats Domino
The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else. -- Chris Rose
I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels. -- Sandra Bullock
You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes. -- James Carville
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales. -- Douglas Brinkley
If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language. -- Ty Pennington
If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear. -- Ray Davies
You get a taste here in New Orleans that you don't get anywhere else in the country. -- Regis Philbin
New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people. -- Anne Rice
It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other. -- Henry Bonilla
I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina, -- Arne Duncan
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans. -- Richard Brautigan
Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an ecolectic (sic) reading list. -- George W. Bush
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. -- Bill Kreutzmann
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, butGod did. -- Richard Baker
I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee. -- Bryan Batt
An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah. -- George Wein
So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white? -- Sean Hannity
I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground. -- Anne Rice
My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn. -- Jacoby Jones
I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me -- Drew Brees
For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town. -- Delta Burke
Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation. -- Peyton Manning
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. -- Drew Brees
I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship. -- Nicolas Cage
I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. -- James Gandolfini
I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her. -- Ruta Sepetys
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. -- John Kennedy Toole
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. -- Joy Harjo
...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans -- Chris Rose
I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum. -- Wynton Marsalis
Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. -- Clint Walker
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined. -- Andrei Codrescu
Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now. -- Aaron Broussard
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad. -- Christopher Hitchens
I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years. -- Perry Chen
There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else. -- Anthony Bourdain

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