Mardi Gras Quotes

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

  Mark Twain

  New Orleans, United States, States

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

  Chris Rose

  Love Life, Creativity, Joy

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, New Orleans, Edinburgh

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.

  Chris Rose

  New Year, Valentine, Night

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we put stuff out; we don't skip it. It's our big thing for March.

  Suzanne Smith

  New Year, Halloween, Years

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• The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Eye, Dark, Hands

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• I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Home, People, Saint

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• In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday, Mardi Gras, where men give women beads in the respectful and post-feminist desire to see their naked boobies.

  Craig Ferguson

  Country, Fall, Flower

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• Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!

  Nikki Sixx

  New Orleans, Ideas, Motley Crue

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• There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.

  Louis Armstrong

  Kings, Looks, Parades

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• I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

  Mitch Landrieu

  Rats, Streets

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• Where are you from, Mr. Pendergast? Can't quite place the accent.” “New Orleans.” “What a coincidence! I went there for Mardi Gras once." “How nice for you. I myself have never attended.” Ludwig paused, the smile frozen on his face, wondering how to steer the conversation onto a more pertinent topic.

  Douglas Preston

  Nice, New Orleans, Topics

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• History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.

  Norman Chad

  War, America, Rights

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• 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

  Art, New Orleans, Dining

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• How was I to know your pet was a god-killer? What kind of idiot ties herself down to one of his kind? (Dionysus) Well, gee, what was I supposed to do? Hook up with Mr. All-powerful God-killer or get myself a Mardi Gras float and hang out with him? (She pointed to Camulus, who looked extremely offended by her comment.) You’re such a moron. No wonder you’re the patron god of drunken frat boys. (Artemis)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Powerful, Boys, Ties

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.874, St. Martin's Griffin

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• This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at a Mardi Gras party and goes soft.

  Lauren Kate

  Girl, Strong, Party

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove”, p.104, Penguin

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• Yeah, I know, but word came from Artemis herself that she wanted him here. Looks like we’re having a psycho reunion this week…Oh wait, it’s Mardi Gras. Duh. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Waiting, Looks, Duh

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.15, Macmillan

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• We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

  Craig Johnson

  Halloween, Holiday, Effort

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• Don't stop. Keep right on going. Hitch up your trailer and go to Canada or down to Old Mexico. Head for Europe if you can afford it, or go to Mardi Gras. Go someplace you've heard about, where you can fish or hunt or collect rocks or just look up at the sky. Find out what's at the end of some country road. Go see what's over the next hill, and the one after that, and the one after that.

  Wally Byam

  Country, Europe, Sky

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• On Mardi Gras, she got his soul back and freed him. (Wulf) Oh man, that sucks. Now he’s going to have to join Kyrian on the geriatric patrol. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Soul

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• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  Jacki Weaver

  Sweet, Children, Gay

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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