Louisiana Quotes

It's just crazy how the Louisiana court system works.

— Boosie

I love Louisiana, and I love being from there.

— Katherine LaNasa

Dey call me Mr. Louisiana rhymes sweet as tropicana.

— Lil Boosie

I grew up in Carville, Louisiana.

— James Carville

“One licence plate: Louisiana, Sportsman’s Paradise.”

— Heide Goody

Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.

— Patricia Norris

“Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton.”

— James Lee Burke

I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.

— Charlie Melancon

“Where’s your dog?’ I ask quickly. ‘Dawn said you had a dog. Let’s take the dog out.’ ‘There ain’t no dog,’ replies…

— Amaya Ellman

The incredible resiliency and spirit of the people of Louisiana is inspiring, to say the least.

— Charles Boustany

For years, I traveled the state to share my vision for a more prosperous Louisiana.

— John Bel Edwards

Our goal is to promote the opportunities we have right here in Louisiana.

— John Bel Edwards

A man in Louisiana. He never called me by my name. He said boy do this and boy do that but I…

— Buddy Guy

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

— Dean Koontz

My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful.

— Rege-Jean Page

“Pushed times make a monkey chew pepper.~ Creole proverb. (challenging times inspire unique actions)”

— Myra Jolivet

Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.'…

— Hunter Hayes

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been…

— Lindy Boggs

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in…

— William Joyce

In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands…

— Bill Frist

Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as…

— Ned Sublette

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we…

— Abraham Lincoln

Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from…

— Jimmy Dean

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer -- prayer for those whose lives…

— George W. Bush

Everything in Louisiana is about layers. There are layers of race, layers of class, layers of survival, layers of death, and layers…

— Don Lemon

You never know. It started with me in Louisiana when I won Louisiana and I got fewer delegates than Ted Cruz. I…

— Donald Trump

I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or…

— Rebecca Wells

Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of…

— A. J. Liebling

Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well…

— Hill Harper

History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New…

— Norman Chad

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette,…

— Robbie Robertson

I moved to Louisiana to become the executive Chef at Commander's Place. And I must say I had some encouragement from friends…

— Emeril Lagasse

Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and…

— Bryan Stevenson

The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the…

— C. Wright Mills

New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the…

— John Guare

“Abandoned residential homes are common in the area—often the casualties of severe damage from hurricanes—but what I find fascinating is the mettle…

— Mike Correll

Phil Robertson and his family are great citizens of the State of Louisiana. The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints,…

— Bobby Jindal

Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air--moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh--felt as if it…

— Tom Robbins

“The Measure of America, a report of the Social Science Research Council, ranks every state in the United States on its “human…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild