New Orleans Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old new orleans quotes, new orleans sayings, and new orleans proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And, New Orleans home cooking. Fats Domino
In New Orleans I felt a freedom. I could catch my breath here. Tennessee Williams
There is one spot on the globe, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans. Thomas Jefferson
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory. I will do everything within my power to make that happen and to help in any way I can to ease the suffering of my city, my people! Harry Connick Jr.
About 15 miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. Frank Yerby
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. Anthony Bourdain
Great Babylon is come up before me. Oh. the wickedness, the idolatry of the place! unspeakable the riches and splendor. Rachel Jackson
A city of sin and gayety unique on the North American continent. Herbert Asbury
There is no architecture in New Orleans except in the cemeteries. Mark Twain
New Orleans is the unique American place. Charles Kuralt
So if this is New Orleans, what happened to old Orleans? Did it retire? London Tipton
Dreams do come true in New Orleans! Tiana
We put it a different way in New Orleans - it's not money that gives a man his standing, but his name. Yancy Derringer
And around here, they all run to New Orleans. They call it the City that Care Forgotten. Inspector Sordik
This time I'm walking to New Orleans / I'm walking to New Orleans / I'm gonna need two pair-a shoes / When I get through walking these blues / When I get back to New Orleans Antoine Domino; Dave Bartholomew; Robert Charles Guidry
I've got no time for talking / I've got to keep on walking / New Orleans is my home / That's the reason why I'm gone / Yes I'm walking to New Orleans / New Orleans is my home / That's the reason why I'm gone / Yes I'm walking to New Orleans Antoine Domino; Dave Bartholomew; Robert Charles Guidry
They've got angels right here on earth / Wearing little blue jeans / Way down yonder in New Orleans Henry Creamer; Turner Layton
A come on everybody take a trip with me / On down the Mississippi down to New Orleans / They got a honeysuckle droopin' on a honeysuckle vine / And a love is a growin' there all the time / Well every southern bell is a Mississippi queen / Down the Mississippi down to New Orleans Joseph F. Royster; Frank J. Guida
Welcome to the new Orléans / My heart is beating for dreams rolling in the Frenchmen Street / Welcome to the Bourbon Street / I am a Parisian guy walking down the street of New Orleans Stephen Headspot
Now won't you come along with me / To the Mississippi? / We'll take a trip to the land of dreams / Blowing down the river, down to New Orleans Spencer Williams
I said, Basin Street, Basin Street / Where the elite always meet / Down in New Orleans, the land of dreams / You'll never know how nice it seems Spencer Williams
I'll miss the Quarter, the Magnolias and the Ponchartrain / And the French Market on a Saturday / I'll miss the feel of this place / I'll miss the bayou sunrise / The Mardi Gras and the Second Lines / Bourbon jazz, sidewalk kids / With bottlecap taps, dancing for tips David Fraiser; Jordan Davis; Lonnie Fowler
But I'm leaving New Orleans / There's too much of you in this town / Your memory is like moss in the trees / Every corner it's just hanging around / Well, The Big Easy ain't so easy / Hard to say it but baby come morning / I'll be rolling like the Mississippi leaving New Orleans David Fraiser; Jordan Davis; Lonnie Fowler
I'd like to know where the riverboat sails tonight / To New Orleans well that's just fine alright / 'Cause there's fighting there and the company needs men / So slip us a rope and sail on round the bend Bernie Taupin; Elton John
I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. James Gandolfini
Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train / I was feeling near as faded as my jeans / Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained / And rode us all the way to New Orleans. Fred L. Foster; Kris Kristofferson
New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States. Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can live in any city in America, but New Orleans is the only city that lives in you. Chris Rose
In New Orleans, culture doesn’t come down from on high, it bubbles up from the streets. Ellis Marsalis
You find as a writer that there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them. Jimmy Buffett