Top 101 Baton Quotes & Sayings

I'm good man, repin' Baton Rouge, Louisiana to the fullest. Lettin' everybody know that I got some new heat comin' to the streets.

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.

I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.

I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

I was a rock star. I was the president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

In Baton Rouge, blacks have always been looked at differently from other races, and the blacks who are fortunate, don't express themselves like I do.

When you have children, you almost feel like you've made your contribution to the survival of the human species. It's your way of passing the baton.

I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.

Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, as each new actor comes to it.

People only see what they want to see and sometimes you can't do anything about that, so you just pick up the baton and you just run with it.

We are going to Baton Rouge and one of the most storied stadiums in the country, a place I can truthfully say is the loudest place I've ever been.

I want people to go deep into my music like Baton Rouge does.

Louisiana is a special place in my family's history, and we are committed as a family to never forget the city and the people of Baton Rouge.

He`s quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen].

If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

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.

It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.

We have a responsibility to carry the baton of faith to the next generation.

Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

I acted in 'Oomakkuyil' under Balu Mahendra's baton.

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.

Baton Rouge is small, so when somebody like me blowup, who they used to chase around the neighborhood, who was a wild little kid, that affects people.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

She was born in Baton Rouge, her favorite song was In My Life.

It's what you'd expect out of Baton Rouge: people tailgating with shrimp étouffée, everything from alligators roasting on a barbecue to dishes that you would get in the French Quarter. These people are serious and they are legit and they're ready to go.

Neither team has really taken the baton by the scruff of the neck and put their stamp on it.

I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.

I do basically what a conductor does with a baton, except I also play along with the orchestra. So I have to juggle the roles of playing the concertmaster; sometimes I drop the violin and wave my arms.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

The coaching life is like a relay race and I'm thankful for my turn and am confident as I pass the baton.

What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy.

Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

There are plenty of good, rational, compassionate and talented conservatives who deserve a microphone and a platform. It's time to pass the baton to a new generation of leaders who don't speak - or think - like Archie Bunker.

It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

Messi and Ronaldo have dominated world football for a decade and, given the nature of football, at a certain point the baton will have to pass to someone else. I think Neymar has a great chance of filling that role.

If you chose to be an actor, if you take that baton and say 'OK, this is what I want to do with my life.' you're really putting your fate and your life in the hands of others.

When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.

I gotta take the baton from Chuck Norris.

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about.

I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.

No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.

I wasn't what you would envision for the son of an Army man. I liked doll baby clothes and twirled a baton. But my aunts and uncles tell me how much he loved me.

Each generation has an obligation to pick up the baton. We want young people to feel a sense of responsibility to take that baton and run with it.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Only the very best clubs are able to pass the baton of continuity down through the generations.

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.