Orleans Quotes - page 5

I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me. (Ruta Sepetys)
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. View quote
Frank Ocean
I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. View quote
Adriana Trigiani
I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. View quote
James Gandolfini
New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.' View quote
Jonah Hill
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 play one. View quote
Ian Somerhalder
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch. View quote
Harry Anderson
There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal. View quote
Anthony Mackie
In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good. View quote
Anthony Mackie
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. View quote
Fats Domino
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals. (The Edge)
I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves. View quote
Anika Noni Rose
Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America. View quote
Al Roker
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. View quote
Bill Kreutzmann
New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans. View quote
Billy Tauzin
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to. View quote
Billy Tauzin
I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee. View quote
Bryan Batt
In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut. View quote
Bryan Batt
New Orleans in an amazing town. View quote
Benjamin Walker
These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back. View quote
Cedric Richmond
I never take storms as seriously as I should, which is probably not the way I should be handling it. I think it's to do with growing up in New Orleans and having a hurricane, like, once a week. (Chloe Bridges)
Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want. View quote
Chris Paul
A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons - make daiquiris. View quote
Chris Rose
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know? View quote
Christian Scott
I think the rebuilding of the city has to start with the spirit first. So the music, the vibe, the connection spiritually with the artists. Everybody out here is the main key. A lot of people are still in a lot of tough situations. My heart still goes out to the people of New Orleans. View quote
Doug E. Fresh