I want people to know that it's all right to come back to New Orleans. You can drink the water. The only… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
We come from New Orleans, so everything is emotional - for, once the music takes over, and we start blowing, we go… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away… — Billy Tauzin Copy Share Image
I never take storms as seriously as I should, which is probably not the way I should be handling it. I think… — Chloe Bridges Copy Share Image
I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it's a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
Everything changed after Katrina. It's a new New Orleans now and I think it's better. It was a wake-up call and it… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
“It's almost hard to believe that this is in the same country as Lakeside," he said. Wednesday glared at him. Then he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I was drafted by the New Orleans Saints and was tired of dealing with injuries. I just got tired of playing football,… — Paul Orndorff Copy Share Image
“For a second, I stop fighting and think about what he's asking me. Did I live? I made a best friend. Lost… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air--moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh--felt as if it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“According to the 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 25.8 percent of [New Orleans] population lives below the poverty line... This… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
It was awesome growing up in New Orleans because there were great metal bands, there were great hardcore bands, there were great… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
“I am going to hate New Orleans," he whispered against her silken hair before she began lowering her head. Her breath warmed… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
Basically, from the pilot of the first season of 'Togetherness,' I was strategically losing weight all the way through and then all… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the… — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
There were tactical decisions that I wish I could have done differently: mission accomplished, not revealing my drunken driving charge prior to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
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