Cities Quote by Ian McNulty

“New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”

— John Kennedy Toole

“After the storm, many citizens left New Orleans to live elsewhere, but those who stayed were determined to rebuild. They loved their city.”

— Howard Schultz

“I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.”

— Jordan Flaherty

The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.

— Chris Rose

“Life in New Orleans is all about making the present--this moment, right now--as pleasant as possible. So New Orleanians, by and large, aren't tortured…

— Dan Baum

“In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day.”

— Dan Baum

“You got to get outta here, Josie. New Orleans is fine for some people, real good for a few. But not for you. Too…

— Ruta Sepetys

“But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.”

— Amanda Stevens

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the…

— Wynton Marsalis

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…

— Chris Rose

“Many of us spent time talking with the men and women who had lived through Katrina, and we heard stories of not only individual…

— Howard Schultz

New Orleans is a unique environment.

— Steve Earle