Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
Grief is just so scary… If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
“And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was attracted to black music for the same reason that I loved those old Irish ballads. Both were social statements of… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the… — David Sanborn 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
The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“about Minnesota he tells me all about it—how it became a state just over seventy years ago and is now the twelfth… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Despite all the Indian ruins and the abiding native communities, plaques around Lake Itasca proclaim that Henry Rowe Schoolcraft discovered the source… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver—not aloud, but to himself—that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even… — John Moody Copy Share Image
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life,… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this… — Leonard Boswell Copy Share Image
My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“She said that time was like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. She meant you could never go back.… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image