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
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In New Orleans I felt a freedom. I could catch my breath here.Tennessee Williams
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There is one spot on the globe, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans.Thomas Jefferson
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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.
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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
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In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.Anthony Bourdain
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Great Babylon is come up before me. Oh. the wickedness, the idolatry of the place! unspeakable the riches and splendor.Rachel Jackson
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A city of sin and gayety unique on the North American continent.Herbert Asbury
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There is no architecture in New Orleans except in the cemeteries. Mark Twain
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New Orleans is the unique American place.Charles Kuralt
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So if this is New Orleans, what happened to old Orleans? Did it retire?London Tipton
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Dreams do come true in New Orleans!Tiana
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We put it a different way in New Orleans - it's not money that gives a man his standing, but his name.Yancy Derringer
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And around here, they all run to New Orleans. They call it the City that Care Forgotten.Inspector Sordik
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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 OrleansAntoine Domino; Dave Bartholomew; Robert Charles Guidry
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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 OrleansAntoine Domino; Dave Bartholomew; Robert Charles Guidry
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They've got angels right here on earth / Wearing little blue jeans / Way down yonder in New OrleansHenry Creamer; Turner Layton
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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 OrleansJoseph F. Royster; Frank J. Guida
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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 OrleansStephen Headspot
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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 OrleansSpencer Williams
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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 seemsSpencer Williams
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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 tipsDavid Fraiser; Jordan Davis; Lonnie Fowler
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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 OrleansDavid Fraiser; Jordan Davis; Lonnie Fowler
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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 bendBernie Taupin; Elton John
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I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.James Gandolfini
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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
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New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You can live in any city in America, but New Orleans is the only city that lives in you.Chris Rose
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In New Orleans, culture doesn’t come down from on high, it bubbles up from the streets.Ellis Marsalis
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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