Top 321 Louisiana Quotes & Sayings

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

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 him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

Just being from Louisiana, being from the southern part of Louisiana, Metairie, close to New Orleans and growing up in St. Rose. There are a lot of things to overcome.

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now.

If I happen to have another baby or something like that, I'd probably move back to Louisiana. I do miss Louisiana. I miss the people. I miss the food. I miss the way of life, how everything is really simple. There's no traffic like there is in L.A. It's really nice.

Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

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

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

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

It is my obligation as the Governor of Louisiana to responsibly lead in developing and implementing best policies and practices across executive agencies so that state government operates in a manner worthy of the people of Louisiana.

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

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

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

In Louisiana, you can drive when you're 15 - you could get your driving permit. I remember, during driver's ed, I fell asleep at the wheel one day. I was tired. The guy shook me and switched and said he was getting into the driver's seat. I didn't fail, so I guess you can fall asleep occasionally. It's Louisiana.

I used to spend summers with my Granma in Louisiana; Crowley, LA.

When it comes to the southern states, I used to actually live in Louisiana for a year.

I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.

The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.

God bless the great state of Louisiana.

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

Louisiana's coast is disappearing at an alarming rate, but we cannot ignore the important role the offshore energy industry plays in breathing life into Louisiana's economy.

Everything in Louisiana is about layers. There are layers of race, layers of class, layers of survival, layers of death, and layers of rebirth. To live with these layers is to be a true Louisianian. This state has a depth that is simultaneously beyond words and yet as natural as breathing. How can a place be both other-worldly and completely pedestrian is beyond me; however, Louisiana manages to do it. Louisiana is spooky that way.

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.

The Saints are Louisiana's team and have been since the late '60s when my predecessor Pete Rozelle welcomed them to the league as New Orleans' team and Louisiana's team. Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana.

I'm from Louisiana, and I'm used to having space and a yard.

The safety of our citizens is my top priority, and to that end, Louisiana needs our very best public servants working to implement innovative public safety measures across state agencies and throughout Louisiana.

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.

In Louisiana, we are resilient, and we are determined to meet any challenge that comes our way.

You never know. It started with me in Louisiana when I won Louisiana and I got fewer delegates than Ted Cruz. I win a state, I get fewer votes. Then, I poll great in Colorado and all of a sudden .?.?. the voters aren't going to choose. The bosses are going to choose. Anything is possible.

My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there a lot. We got married in New Orleans. She has a cousin who introduced me to swamp pop, which is sort of zydeco/Cajun music with a little uptempo pop swing. Now I'm a big zydeco fan, I'm a big swamp-music fan.

In South Louisiana, every single thing we do is jazz or zydeco.

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.

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

The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.

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

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

I committed to the people of Louisiana that my administration would look like the state as a whole.

Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

As a father, husband of a schoolteacher and governor of Louisiana, I am committed to improving education for all children in Louisiana.

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.

Shipbuilding has been an important industry in Louisiana for generations, and the armed forces of the United States have long relied on the talents of Louisiana's shipyard workforce.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

Louisiana's rural communities are vital to the strength of our state.

We know that behind every budget number are real Louisiana citizens.

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.

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

Being from South Louisiana, we're just kind of rootsy.

I grew up in Carville, Louisiana.

Louisiana is a trade powerhouse.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

We shot the first season of 'Hap and Leonard' towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone's been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather's like down there at that time of year: it's unbearably hot for an Englishman.

It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it's equal, but the time to fight that battle is gone. Without Louisiana and Mississippi working together, Louisiana might have gotten a lot less than that. That's just the reality of politics.

It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

We tend to want to stay here in Louisiana as Louisiana people. We've just got to be mindful that there are other things out there, and we really need to open our kids' minds to get them to go to college. Get them to get away. Then come back and help the next ones behind us.

First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.