Cajun Louisiana Sayings

#1. Because I'm an asshole, and I'm sorry, and I missed you." Three statements unloaded fast enough to penetrate me before I had time to finish fashioning my bulletproof vest.

Santino Hassell

#2. Love is a flower of life - sometimes half open, one has to receive it with both hands. Nurture it, so it may open to its full bloom - you will be rewarded with its blessful frangrance. You may be intoxicated for life. If you let it drop on the ground, you have missed the most valuable gift of life.

Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

#3. A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

Thornton Wilder

#4. My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

Hunter Hayes

#5. Oh sister," Jackal mocked, pretending to wipe away a tear. "Listen to you, sounding just like a real vampire. I'm so proud.

Julie Kagawa

#6. In Louisiana, one of the first stages of grief is eating your weight in Popeyes fried chicken. The second stage is doing the same with boudin. People have been known to swap the order. Or to do both at the same time.

Ken Wheaton

#7. By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

Elizabeth McGovern

#8. He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

John Green

#9. My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.

Hunter Hayes

#10. Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

Brian Tracy

#11. There's people that when they see Samuel Hamilton the first time might get the idea he's full of bull. He don't talk like other people. He's an Irishman. And he's all full of plans - a hundred plans a day. And he's all full of hope.

John Steinbeck

#12. Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

Jimmy Dean

#13. Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

Paul Prudhomme

#14. Colored or not, we all work for the white man's cotton ...

James Lee Burke

#15. Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

Jane Smiley

#16. Pushed times make a monkey chew pepper.~ Creole proverb. (challenging times inspire unique actions)

Myra Jolivet

#17. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.

Hunter Hayes

#18. Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton.

James Lee Burke

#19. Comedy has lost its eloquence.

Robert Klein

#20. I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

Christopher Durang

#21. When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

Ellen Page

#22. The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.

Daniel Woodrell