Famous Quotes & Sayings

The overall momentum in construction remains solid. We expect this pattern to continue, with public and commercial construction taking the leadership baton in 2006 as housing starts ease back moderately.

We were going to be nomads for the most part. There's no place to room in Baton Rouge.

Peter Wright

Most of the people here think this is the best-kept secret in Baton Rouge. If you're wondering what the dirty little secret is, there isn't one. We're just north of Florida Boulevard, that's all.

Ian Holloway

Whoever picks up this baton has to be able to carry it forward,

We feel every comfortable with the baton in Jack's hands. He's been there before.

Archie Manning

I was very proud of them. It was heavy on their hearts and they moved fast. Peyton got the plane lined up. Their mother and I think that it did some good. I've heard so many comments from people in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. And after talking to the boys when I got back I could tell it did them some good, too.

Nicole Scherzinger

When I think about eighteen months ago when this all began and how far we've come, I can't wait to see where we are eighteen months from now. It's also such an honor to have the baton of a number one song passed to us by an icon like Mariah Carey.

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.

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.

going to take the baton from us and take a very serious look at how these different sports regulate themselves and their athletes.

Jim Haslett

I think it's a good rivalry. Any time we play them, we rise to the challenge. I think all our football games are close. Even the game we had in Baton Rouge (in November) in front of about 10,000 people, it was one of those battles. It helps when both teams know each other well.

Glen Davis

He didn't make it. He was being transported to Baton Rouge General. He didn't make it I heard. I heard he passed in the ambulance.

Jim Haslett

I'd like to have them here because we're practicing here, ... But I think we owe it to the state and the region to play a couple games in Baton Rouge if we can.

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

Michael Chertoff

Get yourself into that command center in Baton Rouge!

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.

We have a situation where the baton of economic growth needs to pass from consumers to businesses, but that hasn't happened yet,

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

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.

Ben Carson

I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation.

We worked together the whole time. The whole crew works like a family. Mr. Sheldon made sure I had a home to stay in, and we're all in the house (Mitchell, his father, and Stewart in east Baton Rouge). We've just been sticking together like family. I hadn't heard from some of my family, then I did...everyone's OK now, and so I can rest.

Joe Browne

We believed that the first priority was not to interfere with any relief efforts that were accommodating the evacuees, and that included Houston, it included San Antonio, it certainly included Baton Rouge,

There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.

That baton was handed to them and now they have to hand off the baton to the juniors. It's tradition and they've picked it up and ran with it.

My mother is with her sister in Arkansas, my brother is in Baton Rouge with his wife's family and my sister who just walked in is here with me,

Robbie Robertson

I think the most important thing here is... paying homage to other artists. Everybody (is) passing the baton because there are many people who are going to be in this show. If it wasn't for them, a lot of the rest of us wouldn't be doing this.

Aaron Brooks

Just about everywhere we go a hurricane hits. You just can't believe it. ... It's like a black cloud. We may not be able to play in Baton Rouge if it hits like that.

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.

Our office is in pretty good shape, but the building itself had some damage. We're setting up a temporary location in Baton Rouge.

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.