Best Orleans Qoutes
317 Orleans quotes by 204 unique authors
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So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this…
— Barack Obama
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I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in…
— Amanda Palmer
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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…
— Tyler Perry
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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
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We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
— Paul Prudhomme
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The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
— Charles Rangel
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Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat…
— Ryan Reynolds
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I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.
— Anne Rice
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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
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Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
— Amy Sedaris
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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…
— Richard Simmons
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In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
— Mark Skousen
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to…
— Ian Somerhalder
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New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
— Mark Twain
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...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in…
— John Kennedy Toole
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In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was…
— Anne Rice
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Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
— John Kennedy Toole
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So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity…
— Tennessee Williams
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I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to…
— Charles Bukowski
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When I am introduced as someone from New Orleans, people sometimes say: "I'm so sorry." New Orleans. I'm so sorry. That's not the way it…
— Chris Rose
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Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!
— Nikki Sixx
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If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to…
— Chris Rose
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...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans
— Chris Rose
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