Being Cajun Quotes & Sayings

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out ... — Charles Dickens

Most of the POWs were taken before they could cut loose form their harness. Among then was Pvt. Paul Bouchereau, a Louisiana Cajun. He was being taken to a German command post where other POWs were being harshly interrogated. The German captain, speaking English, was demanding to know how many Americans had jumped into the area.
"Millions and millions of us." One GI replied.
The angry captain asked Bouchereau the same question. With his strong Cajun accent, Bouchereau answered, "Jus' me! — Stephen Ambrose

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure. — Winston Churchill

Someone's been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully. — Ralph Bakshi

But he could not go up to the room as yet, and seating himself on a stone step, his head on his arms, he wept silently. Years had passed since he had shed tears, or so it seemed. Surely years since he had let them flow so copiously. And what stopped him finally was that he could hear his own crying. — Anne Rice

What we have is the here and now, and what we have is each other, and let's find a way to deal truthfully with each other. — Christopher Eccleston

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops. — John Muir

There's a hell of a lot you haven't shared." "Oh, I'm sorry. Be sure to send out invites to the pot-meets-kettle show you'll be throwing." "I'm sensing sarcasm. I think being in Cajun country's given me some of your voodoo. — S.E. Jakes

Her sister had always teased her saying that people who drank tea were boring, but the ones who drank coffee were cool. — Anya Wylde

Every dollar released from taxation, that is spent or invested, will create a new job and a new salary. — John F. Kennedy