I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had… — Michael Irvin Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take… — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Orleans. And I'm… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
George W. Bush was good as his word. He visited the Gulf states 17 times; went 13 times to New Orleans. Laura… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
'Treme' begins after Hurricane Katrina, and it's a year-by-year account of how everyday people there put their lives back together. It's sort… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Then I guess we cannot miss the famous festival in New Orleans," he found himself saying, just to take the shadows from… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“I heard a tune from Aaron Neville floating out of someone's window on the other end of the street. I could tell… — Margot Berwin Copy Share Image
“That was the point of Mardi Gras, was it not? To serve and honor all the people, to bring into hard lives… — Dan Baum Copy Share Image
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Nation and World Three boys age 8 and 9 are being held in a detainton center on charges of kidnapping and raping… — Bobby Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Didn’t he have to admit, begrudgingly, that in some extra-perverse corner of his brain the idea of having to be out of… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
“SERVES 6 Vegetable oil, for frying 1½ cups all-purpose flour ¼ teaspoon kosher salt, plus more for seasoning 12-ounce can lager-style… — Lidia Matticchio Bastianich Copy Share Image
There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were… — Zutty Singleton Copy Share Image
Nobody said he came from New Orleans where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen and a crashing blow frome… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look… — Lynn Westmoreland Copy Share Image
There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
Honestly, I got the best of both worlds: groove of New Orleans meets the intensity of Texas. That's the best education I… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
I like being New Orleans. Different aspects. You have the lake house. You have a huge, almost plantation-style house, so I like… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
New Orleans is New Orleans. It's a great city and fun and great food. It's one of those cities that when you… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
“Not to Houston, anyway. It was hotter than hell in Houston, just like in New Orleans. If I move anywhere, it’ll be… — Amanda Stevens Copy Share Image
I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food.… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
New Orleans is my kind of city. I think there's a lot going on, but it's also very calm. It's a place… — Zion Williamson Copy Share Image
I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down… — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't… — Pete Fountain Copy Share Image
New Orleans has an incredible culture. Everybody brings up food first, but I realized there's a lot more to that in terms… — J. J. Redick Copy Share Image
“The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
