Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Haslett

I was kind of surprised, to be honest, because I thought we would play here or in Baton Rouge,

Yulia Tymoshenko

picking up Kuchma's baton and wanting to get rid of me in the same way.

Jim Haslett

The best situation for us is to play games right here because we are working here. But still having our ties to Louisiana, you would like to go to Baton Rouge and play a game or two.

J. Taylor

It took four hours just to get to Baton Rouge.

Aaron Brooks

It's like a black cloud. We may not be able to play in Baton Rouge if it hits like that.

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.

John Brady

And Glen challenged the team at halftime. You know what it was like being in Baton Rouge last year after we didn't win that first round game. I didn't want to experience that any more.

The man in Baton Rouge said to call when we get close.

They're talking about changing the (Louisiana) state song to helicopter blades flapping and a siren wailing, ... I'd imagine Baton Rouge is even worse to drive in now.

They seem to run harder when they have a baton in their hand.

Where is the soul of New Orleans? ... Vegas and Utah , parts of Texas, California , Michigan , Baton Rouge. It's all over.

We're from Baton Rouge, so we don't know how to do The Second Line that great. We want to bring it home to Louisiana because of all people have been through losing their lives and homes. We want to bring some excitement back to the state.

We're hoping the kids (who have been evacuated to Baton Rouge) realize there are people out there that care for them and are concerned about them.

That's where we start (looking). Baton Rouge is the closest major city to New Orleans. Hard to say where this thing is going to take us in the next in few weeks.

Douglas Brinkley

Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water's edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge.

These buildings are the history of the community and they represent the human history of the community, ... There is just so much going on in Old South Baton Rouge that the rest of the community doesn't appreciate, and it's because they don't know.

I used the end of my baton to try and wake the male because I could hear breathing, ... As I pushed on his right shoulder, I could distinguish that the breathing was coming from a second person on the other side of the bed on the floor.

The White House and the Congress took off with the baton . . . but they haven't finished running the race. The fundamental job of the government is to protect and defend its citizens, and at this point, the United States is still very vulnerable.

Nick Saban

This game is really about our players and not about me going back to Baton Rouge,

We're handing the baton off and letting someone else take the next leg of this important race.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.

We found them (the Simons) at a church-run shelter in Baton Rouge.

She's the child that Baton Rouge raised. To see her on this stage is a compliment to her.

Nobody knows who they are or where they are or if they're going to vote. Ideally, you'd have to run a multi-city campaign in Baton Rouge, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta.

Don Kelly

Certainly not all of the people who evacuated to Baton Rouge are gang members, ... In fact, there are signs that many of them stayed down there. Let's not forget that much of that population is dispersed all over the country. We don't really know for certain yet where the criminal element went.

Jonathan Daniels

Baton Rouge, New Orleans and southern Louisiana are the largest shipping complex in the world, and the U.S. is extremely reliant on shipping in the Mississippi River corridor and Gulfport, Miss.

New Orleans is, of course, our next thrust, and we're going to have to have to staff recovery efforts down there, but it'll be a different kind of recovery effort, ... We'll be supporting the EOC in Baton Rouge with temporary communications until the National Guard can get in.

Michael Chertoff

Get yourself into that command center in Baton Rouge!

I give Rick credit to try to move GM as an organization more at Internet speed. We're seeing the baton being passed from one person who made a significant contribution to someone on the same team, who is going to take the company hopefully to the next level.

Since the hurricane, there is a new 'normal' in Baton Rouge. We have become Louisiana's largest city. We went from 350,000 to 600,000 in a few days. There is gridlock at many intersections as New Orleans people struggle in a new city. There have been rumors of increased crime, desperate people wandering the streets.

I can't say with any level of confidence today that it won't be played in Baton Rouge.

John Smoltz

Hopefully, I can turn the baton over to them.

Paul Di Filippo

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.