Louisiana Quotes

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  • Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.

  • Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

  • I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.

  • I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

  • On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

    Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.46, tredition
  • Hillary Clinton didn't go to Louisiana. She didn't go to Mexico. She was invited.

    Source: time.com
  • Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

    Crush   Queens   Revenge  
  • I want to just say something very, very personal. As you know, Louisiana has undergone a lot of flooding over the last couple of weeks August 2016. And I just want to thank the American people for their generosity and supporting so many victims of that terrible flooding.

    Couple   August   People  
    "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.
  • I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.

    "Melancon Tacks Positive In New Ad: ‘I’m A Pro-Life, Pro-Gun Louisiana Democrat’" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.
  • Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.

    "The end of race". www.politico.com. August 25, 2013.
  • The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer - prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.

    Country   Prayer   People  
    George W. Bush Participates in Briefing at Emergency Operations Center, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 3, 2008.
  • It's a road movie [Valentine]. I mean, yes. We film it here and it takes place from basically Colorado to Louisiana. That's the road trip. So we're all over the place. We go through bits of Texas and bits of Oklahoma.

    Source: collider.com
  • Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That keeps his campaign alive. But Hillary Clinton won Louisiana, which was the big prize of the night, so she ended up winning more delegates than he did yesterday.

    Winning   Night   Kansas  
    "Rounding Up The Week In Politics". www-s4.npr.org. March 6, 2016.
  • A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

    Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press
  • I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.

    Fun   Thinking   People  
    "Hunter Hayes, 20, on 16-year career". Interview with Ed Masley, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 5, 2012.
  • My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.

    Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.
  • I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

  • But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art.

    Art   Flower   Home  
  • My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there a lot. We got married in New Orleans. She has a cousin who introduced me to swamp pop, which is sort of zydeco/Cajun music with a little uptempo pop swing. Now I'm a big zydeco fan, I'm a big swamp-music fan.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

  • Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

  • Louisiana has the best food on the planet if you don't really ask too much about what you're eating.

  • Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.

    Girl   Mean   Evil  
    Song: Polk Salad Annie, Album: Black and White
  • In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.

    Inspiring   Girl   Mom  
    "The 10 most powerful celebrity speeches of 2014" by Leanne Bayley, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. September 26, 2014.
  • Well, it's possible that the new infusion of ad money against Donald Trump kept his margins in Kentucky and Louisiana down a bit. But we're also seeing something that we've never seen in 100 years, which is we are seeing the crackup of a major American political party.

    Party   Kentucky   Years  
    "Rounding Up The Week In Politics". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, wkms.org. March 6, 2016.
  • Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

  • American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.

  • I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.

    Moving   Cake   People  
  • [On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

  • Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

    StarChefs Interview, www.starchefs.com. October, 2011.
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