Best Louisiana Quotations
114 Louisiana quotes by 82 unique authors
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Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat…
— Chris Rose
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Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.
— James Lee Burke
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Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.
— James Patterson
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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…
— Anne Rice
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I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice…
— Chris Rose
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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…
— Charles Bukowski
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Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate…
— Felix Rohatyn
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I love Louisiana, and I love being from there.
— Katherine LaNasa
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The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers…
— Noah Feldman
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Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
— Unknown Author
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I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.
— Jeff Mangum
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law,…
— Samuel Freeman Miller
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I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was…
— Nic Pizzolatto
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While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do what we can…
— Jo Bonner
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And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that…
— William Joyce
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I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called…
— Kit Bond
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But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority…
— John Breaux
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The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once…
— Steven Hatfill
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Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different…
— Sam Trammell
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My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood.
— Robert Crais
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Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw…
— Trishelle Cannatella
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I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi…
— Saxby Chambliss
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The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not…
— Michael Chertoff
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I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize…
— John Breaux
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