I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays — Beth Henley 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
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through. — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game. — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Air service is an important asset for rural communities in Mississippi. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law. — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the… — Clint Walker Copy Share Image
Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was… — Dick Gregory 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
Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next… — James Meredith 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
If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw,… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties,… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to… — James Madison 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
Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be… — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
“Winter came in days that were gray and still. They were the kind of days in which people locked in their animals… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying” — Lee Owens Copy Share Image
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I'm going to stand up for the good name of Mississippi, just like I did for Mike Espy's good name. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
“The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.” — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
A better Mississippi and a better America is in our future - if we fight for it. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
