Louisiana famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- A. J. Liebling -
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
-- Beth Henley -
In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
-- Bobby Jindal -
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.
-- Bobby Jindal -
The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.
-- Bobby Jindal -
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
-- Bobby Jindal -
As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
-- Bobby Jindal -
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.
-- Charles Bukowski -
I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.
-- Charlie Melancon -
Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.
-- Christopher Heyerdahl -
My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who find the current ones too cramped, will look something like the Louisiana Superdome on wheels. It'll guzzle so much gas as I walk out to my driveway there will be squads of Saudi princes gaping and applauding. It'll come, when I buy it, with little Hondas and Mazdas already embedded in the front grillwork.
-- David Brooks -
We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.
-- David Vitter -
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.
-- Dean Koontz -
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.
-- Ernest Gaines -
One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.
-- Huey Long -
Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.
-- Hunter Hayes -
My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
-- Ian Somerhalder -
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
-- Jack L. Chalker -
[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.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
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.
-- James F. Cooper -
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.
-- John Breaux -
Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.
-- Kathleen Blanco -
God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.
-- Kathleen Blanco -
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.
-- Kathleen Blanco -
I remember what it was like in the 1960's in rural Louisiana. Women did not have many options. My own best friend in high school had a baby at 16. I don't want us to go back to those days.
-- Kim Gandy -
It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.
-- Lindy Boggs -
Simply put, success in LSU football is essential for the success of Louisiana State University.
-- Mark Emmert -
Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.
-- Nic Pizzolatto -
From Bourbon Street to Baton Rouge, the freaks come out at night in Louisiana. And nowhere are they more raucous and unnerving than at Tiger Stadium.
-- Pat Forde -
We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.
-- Paul Tagliabue -
When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
-- Sam Trammell -
Im concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. Theres no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.
-- Saxby Chambliss -
I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.
-- Tim Blake Nelson -
I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.
-- Trishelle Cannatella -
That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.
-- Kofi Siriboe -
I'm good man, repin' Baton Rouge, Louisiana to the fullest. Lettin' everybody know that I got some new heat comin' to the streets.
-- Lil Boosie
