Quotes About Louisiana

Though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space, Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near, I know very well I could not. - from I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.

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.

I first learned of the value of employee stock ownership plans while representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, home of employee-owned Acadian Ambulance.

Coastal restoration and a robust offshore energy industry have to co-exist because Louisiana's future depends on it.

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

The thing about Louisiana food is that it's really good for about three months, but they only know how to make one thing, and they dip whatever they can find in a bucket of oil.

From the beginning of my administration, I have made it clear that I will budget openly and honestly with the people of Louisiana.

But crossing into Louisiana I got this haunted little rill of feeling -- there was moss and mud everywhere and an inexplicable, hollow sensation that Louisiana is what would be left of the South after it has been nuked -- that I and everything around me were irretrievably rotten.

Oh yes, we found out what happened to the Acadians. Apparently they went on a holiday, to Louisiana or someplace, and when they come back the Loyalists had moved in and taken all their land. So the Acadians killed them. Just kidding. The Acadians moved north into upper New Brunswick, where they now make up a third of the population. New Brunswick is, in essence, Canada in miniature.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

Pensacola isn't Florida, really. It's the Panhandle. It's right up there near Alabama and Louisiana. It's, like, a stroll away from New Orleans. I feel like New Orleans is home.

Louisiana and France have, perhaps, one of the oldest and strongest bonds. Our culture is shaped by this historic relationship, and the peace and security of both of our nations are intertwined.

I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.

You're from Louisiana - you're playing for Louisiana, man. You get so much love from everybody, especially from New Orleans, my city. Everywhere I go, they're rooting for me.

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

I know the hustle that is in Louisiana. Knowing where you are from, really where you're from, helps you to help the community. That's every city, but New Orleans is just different. We have big hearts, but it's just a matter of us having the information, having the people to push you along like I had.

TPC Louisiana, where the Zurich Classic is held, is an outstanding course.

Louisiana 1927

He sings, "I'm in Mississippi, with mud all in my shoes / My girl in Louisiana with those high water blues." Later he says, "Listen here, you men, / one more thing I'd like to say / Ain't no womens out here, for they all got washed away.

That year the Louisiana Highway Department hired New York's Robert Moses, the one whom everyone revered as the most progressive highway planner in the nation, to address New Orleans's traffic problems. Moses' solution was to ring the city with multilaned expressways that would bring automobiles and trucks to the city's core.