“The Natchez Trace seemed much safer to him than risking a sailboat from New Orleans to Washington,” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me — Drew Brees Copy Share Image
“Funny thing about love, ain’t it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn’t enough.” — Eden Butler Copy Share Image
I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to… — Daya Copy Share Image
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
The one thing I've learned about New Orleans as a city is that they're a very welcoming and very passionate fanbase. — Josh Hart Copy Share Image
I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum. — Wynton Marsalis 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the… — Andrei Codrescu 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
“This piece of land was our original sin, except we had found no baptismal rite to expunge it from our lives. That… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I'm all into Jazz; I'm into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I'm a huge southern gospel… — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language. — Ty Pennington Copy Share Image
I have great admiration of the spirit of the people of New Orleans. They love life and stay positive. — Morten Andersen Copy Share Image
When a lot of people are calling it a night at 2 A.M., New Orleans is coming alive. — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
“If we weren’t running late already, I’d pull this truck onto a dirt road and show her just what she does to… — Jiffy Kate Copy Share Image
And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
“There are still a lotta nice Sicilian boys in New Orleans. (A nonna's advice to a zitella.)” — Traci Andrighetti Copy Share Image
Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Last month, an externally run audit of the New Orleans police department found that 46 percent of forcible rapes were misclassified.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
I was brought here [New Orleans] for a reason. I feel like I can make a tremendous impact, not only with the… — Drew Brees Copy Share Image
When we got into coaching or playing, we got into it for certain reasons and yet the reasons in New Orleans far… — Sean Payton Copy Share Image