I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience. — Patricia Neal Copy Share Image
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid. — Madison Keys Copy Share Image
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life. — Omar Benson Miller Copy Share Image
I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those… — Richard Parks Bland Copy Share Image
“They cried. Yes, yes, they cried. Cried more tears than the Mississippi could hold, but those tears never washed away their faith…” — Andrew Galasetti Copy Share Image
I went to a historically Black college in Mississippi, Jackson State University. I also grew up in a small town that had… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
We have lost a true public servant with the passing of Alan Nunnelee, who dedicated so much of his life to improving… — Thad Cochran 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
“Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Mr. Raney named the porpoises - Sister Woman, and Renford, and Lamar, and St. Elmo - and could recognize them, and call… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
I grew up in Mississippi, and there's no fashion game there. Even in 'Bling Ring,' I had to learn a lot about… — Israel Broussard Copy Share Image
Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing… — Gregg Harper Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My concern was first, for the black people of Mississippi, then I became concerned for black people nationwide, now my concern is… — David Banner Copy Share Image
I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I saw a side of humanity I wish I'd remained blissfully ignorant of, including one driver who threw a bottle at… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. The majority of the people in the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state? — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
It is a great honor to serve Mississippi as its first female United States Senator. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi. — Shepard Smith Copy Share Image
