Quotes About New Orleans

There may be a few costumes. That's what's so wonderful about New Orleans. You can masquerade and Mardi Gras all year round if you want to. Really, sometimes the Quarter is like one big costume ball. Sometimes I can't tell friend from foe. But if you oppose costumes, I'll tell everyone, although their little hearts will snap with disappointment.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

There is no architecture in New Orleans, except in the cemeteries.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

At a patio party recently in New Orleans' French Quarter, an oil millionaire from Dallas allowed, "I'd vote for him in a minute, and give him all the money I could, if I just felt I could trust him-if he wouldn't wind up getting tamed by Washington like Lester Maddox over there in Georgia. I'm a Republican, but I'd love to support him, and every one of my friends-oilmen, fellows in wheat-feel the same way.

thirty-four-year-old Ohio-born physician, Oliver Meredith Wozencraft had contracted an acute case of wanderlust from the Argonauts passing through his hometown of New Orleans. Early in 1849 he left behind

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

The NFL had been eyeing New Orleans for its next franchise anyway. So a thinly veiled quid pro quo was offered—a franchise for New Orleans in exchange for the exemption

The next few days live in infamy as every level of government screwed up beyond belief. The city of New Orleans filled with water. Citizens who survived the hurricane died, by the hundreds, in the post-storm flood. People were stranded at the Superdome and convention center, the latter of which wasn't even supposed to be a shelter.

Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.