Quotes about shreveport (16 Quotes)




    I salute and praise the people in Shreveport for having this bowl for 30 years. I know it's not always easy keeping these things alive, but I think the Independence Bowl is the 11th-oldest bowl in the country, so they have done a super job here.

    I think it's a great thing to even have it held here in Shreveport because there's a lot they need too know on radio support, distribution, how to attract the record labels. ... People are talking about this conference a lot,

    Each course is a theme, and it's based on something that is uniquely Southern, ... Shreveport is right in the middle of the chicken-fried steak Southern belt and Creole cooking. So I've blended the two together.


    I tell you what, very mildly. We thought of everything. From going to Ole Miss, which is vacant this Saturday, to Shreveport, but there are reasons that we decided on this trip and I think they're pretty solid. I don't think anything would've been better than this trip.

    The storm-damaged areas will recover much quicker if the regions that are already up and running do better and benefit from revitalization, ... It's more important than ever before that the rest of the state -- Monroe, Shreveport, Alexandria and the agriculture areas -- can thrive so as to lift up the rest of the state.


    First of all, we were giving support as it was needed within the community of Shreveport, La.. And the second part was that a great deal of name recognition and publicity came from it.

    We were walking along the fan fest they were having and it looked it was going to be one of those perfect evenings, ... On our way back to the stadium the snow started flaking. We were laughing about how long this could last in Shreveport. By the end of the night, it wasn't a laughing matter.

    Those who landed in Rhode Island or Utah, I doubt will stay, ... But those in Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Dallas or Houston are more likely to stay because it is not such an alien culture. And of those who come back, what will the mix be More African-Americans More whites You could argue either way.

    Little did I know when I shook my mop out of the second-story window of a Greenwich Village brownstone in New York City (in 1957) that five years later I would be crossing the Red River at Shreveport



    We are still working on how he got from Houston to Shreveport. We don't have any idea what happened between 330 p.m. Thursday and about 8 p.m. Sunday, but looking at the clothes he left behind is a good indication that he was assisted.

    We never got there. ... One of us was arrested in Shreveport ... and the car finally dropped dead in Houston, ... I was stuck in Houston for about a week. I finally called my parents and asked them for money to go back to New York.



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