#new orleans

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

— Drew Brees

#charter #charter schools #come #education #infrastructure

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#absolutely #anyone #book #certainly #contained

New Orleans in an amazing town. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#new #new orleans #orleans #town

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. ↗

— John Goodman

#before #did #getting #i #jazz

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.' ↗

— Jim Hightower

#believe #bush #disaster #failed #farm

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#fiction #first #first time #historical #historical fiction

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#city #enjoyed #every #new #new orleans

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#cuisine #new #new orleans #orleans #rather

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#confederacy #dunces #i #i think #new

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#anthem #attorney #back #campaign #dad