Quotes About Mardi Gras In New Orleans

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

Mark Twain

#2. But still . . . there was a charge in the air. It was Mardi Gras in New Orleans, after all.

Penelope Douglas

#3. New Orleans, said he usually dresses in costume for the Mardi Gras holiday, but the weather deterred him this year. Baker said he chose to celebrate a little differently - sipping cocktails under the cover of a friend's French Quarter patio balcony while watching other costumed revelers

Anonymous

#4. But the reasons against going to New Orleans
that spicy southern city known for jazz and Mardi Gras and hospitality
were the very reasons we had to go.

Howard Schultz

#5. Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

Jane Mayer

#6. There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.

Corra May Harris

#7. now she couldn't quite remember the face of the boy whose

Elizabeth Hoyt

#8. The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

William Osler

#9. In New Orleans I have noticed that people are happiest when they are going to funerals, making money, taking care of the dead, or putting on masks at Mardi Gras so nobody knows who they are.

Walker Percy

#10. Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Rebecca West

#11. What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

Louis L'Amour

#12. My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.

Bryan Batt

#13. She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi Gras Queen because of him. Or her. I didn't know whose fault it was but there was no way I could back down now.

Jenna-Lynne Duncan

#14. There's a path from me to you
I'm constantly looking for,
so I try to keep clear and still
as water does with the moon.

Rumi

#15. He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

Edward Thorndike

#16. 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.

Bryan Batt

#17. Only the Christian faith claims that its Leader died and rose again and is alive at this moment. Many gravestones carry the inscription, "Here lies ... ," but on Christ's tomb are emblazoned the words, "He is not here.

Billy Graham

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

Nikki Sixx

#19. Light is knowledge ,
Knowledge is love ,
Love is freedom.

Vittorio Storaro

#20. Trust is a tricky thing. It can bite you hard when you least expect it to.

Steph Campbell