Mississippi Quotes

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

Nothing could stop Mississippi.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.

If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.

This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi.

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need,.

Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?

I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.

Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became centers with kind of political organizing.

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?

In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi, Arkansas, and with them was brought blues and gospel music.

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.