I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid. — Madison Keys Copy Share Image
My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“As the Mississippi snaked and their old home slipped further away, perhaps Samuel had finally left the curse behind.” — Andrew Galasetti Copy Share Image
“Too thick to drink,” as the boatmen used to say about the water of the Mississippi River, “too thin to walk on.” — Paul Schneider Copy Share Image
“the total number of dams that alter the Mississippi River watershed is in excess of 50,000.” — Paul Schneider Copy Share Image
Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
“It is from Costco. I have learned about bulk shopping in my four weeks as a Mississippi River resident. Republicans go to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Condoms instantly shot to the number-one position on my mental list of must-find survival supplies, far ahead of food, water, and a… — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in… — Lissie Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The rug says: All Are Friends Who Enter Here. It is from Costco. I have learned about bulk shopping in my four… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I reached across the aisle to write an economic development bill that addressed… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
“East Texas is red dirt – not red, in sober truth, but the orange of rust, which it basically is, ferrous oxide… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“The plain truth is that you’d have an easier time standing in the middle of the Mississippi River and requesting that it… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“I could see the cat was definitely on the steps. Still on the steps, 20 minutes after Carl's call. This was strange;… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for hourse and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“This river is famed in atrocious song and verse; the most prevalent motif is one which attempts to make of the river… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“Before these laws could be put into effect, a new wave of white settlers swept westward and formed the territories of Wisconsin… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“I write these words in May of 2011, the week after a huge outbreak of tornadoes killed hundreds across the American South;… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Moo inhaled, his nostrils flaring. It was decided then. Slowly, deliberately, he rose from the saddle and began to dismount. He had… — Taylor Brown Copy Share Image
“Among other embarrassments, at the time of which I now write, was the fact that the government wanted to get out all… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“A humorous treatment of the rigid uniformitarian view came from Mark Twain. Although the shortening of the Mississippi River he referred to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One of the chief ways to lure farmers from the hills to the banks of the Mississippi River, Walter Sillers Jr. and… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
“Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.” — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in… — Jonathan Van Ness Copy Share Image
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
