Famous Quotes & Sayings

N. R. Narayana Murthy

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 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.

We know we are heading to Baton Rouge and they are the No. 5 team in the state. We will have to be ready to play. We are very familiar with them because we play them every year. They are well coached and very experienced. We are excited about moving on in the playoffs to take our shot at them.

Of course, if there are people who need to get that money refunded, then we will work to get that done. For those in Louisiana, especially in Baton Rouge, we're going to offer a presale opportunity for the Baton Rouge games. In our communication with them, we will explain what we are proposing.

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.

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.

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

The Baton Rouge we live in and grew up in is no longer. These people are here to stay, perhaps forever.

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.

I'm in Houston right now, getting ready to go to a farm in Lake Charles. I left my mom and my grandmother and her blind friend in a hotel lobby in Baton Rouge, so I've got to get them up to the farm. I grabbed my guitar, my dog and my girlfriend and got out. That was all I could do. I've got nothing left besides a little cash in my back pocket. It will take months for me to figure out a semblance of what to do.

I'm glad I gave up baton twirling for basketball.

J. Taylor

It took four hours just to get to Baton Rouge.

We're not living in the middle of that every day. It's life. There are folks in Baton Rouge who are having to deal with circumstances that hopefully none of us will ever have to deal with personally. That's what makes it touchy.

To be quite honest, there is never a good time to play LSU. Our challenge is humongous. Baton Rouge is one of the greatest places to see a college football game. We need to enjoy that, but not get caught up in it.

We would like to play our games in Baton Rouge. Obviously, the league has a lot of say. They'll be involved in the decision.

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

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.

Grant Hackett

Coaches like Denis are certainly the unsung heroes in modern sport and that's what carrying the baton is all about, recognising people who play such a valuable role.

Jackie Wilson

It would be different in Baton Rouge. This has place has two, three streets. I hope it doesn't start stinking around here.

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.

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.

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.

A long and difficult settlement looms. For Houston or Baton Rouge, these are huge numbers of people for them. They are desperately poor, seriously depressed, lost individuals with nothing. They are going to be hard to absorb. It's an enormous burden for a city to take it on. After the shock and warmth and compassion wear off, these refugees are going to have to find a way to become new citizens in these new places.

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,

There may be somebody else taking the baton now, which is not unusual in a recovery. Housing is typically the leader out of the desert to the promised land; but, just like Moses didn't make it to the promised land, as rates rise, housing doesn't quite make it, either. Other sectors do.

They are staying at teacher's houses, they are staying with friends. Some are commuting from Baton Rouge and Gonzales.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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.

Don Lemon

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.

In Korea, already you can see the baton passed from exporters to domestic consumption.

Garrett Temple

If you go down to New Orleans in the poorer places, you still see things that are unimaginable. We were so lucky in Baton Rouge. We gave up our time, our homes, to help.