Mississippi Quotes

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

— Little Milton

Here's to the State of Mississippi,

— Phil Ochs

Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

— Mike Leach

Mississippi is akin to an underdeveloped country.

— Mike Espy

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

— James Kavanaugh

Mississippi's never going to be China.

— Tate Reeves

“Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi!”

— Fannie Flagg

Medgar Evers is a true Mississippi hero.

— Mike Espy

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

— Patricia Neal

I will be a strong voice for Mississippi, and not an echo.

— Mike Espy

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

— Bob Newhart

My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

— Angie Thomas

There is no doubt in my mind that we need to spend more money on roads and bridges in Mississippi.

— Tate Reeves

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

— Jim Harrison

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

— Ruta Sepetys

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.

— Israel Broussard

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive…

— Karen White

Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars.…

— James Meredith

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are…

— Stokely Carmichael

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they…

— Kathryn Stockett

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

— Jay R. Ferguson

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

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We…

— Bear Bryant

My dad grew up really poor in Mississippi. I paid attention to that because I thought that's a healthier thing to pay…

— Anderson Cooper

My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised…

— Fred Armisen

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but…

— Sam Donaldson

I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi,…

— Davy Crockett

It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be…

— Barack Obama

All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced…

— Jonathan Raban

Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think there will be great leaders emerging from the State of Mississippi. The people that have the experience to know and…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next…

— James Meredith

“And out in the rural, when Mrs. Laura McGhee--who if she thought it necessary, sat on the porch with her Winchester rifle--permitted…

— Charles E. Cobb Jr

I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church…

— Marty Stuart

I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding…

— Ella Baker

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

Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and…

— Bryan Stevenson

I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black…

— Kathryn Stockett

Her family had no such ties. She was able to forge her way into that world. And then to those people, the…

— Rush Limbaugh

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there…

— Isabel Wilkerson