Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in… — Mary Ann Mobley Copy Share Image
The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
We don't need union bosses to tell us how to take care of our people. We never have, and we never will… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
We hunt in Florida, where I live in Jay. I hunt in Alabama a little bit, on my uncle's land. I go… — Boo Weekley Copy Share Image
It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it's equal, but the time to… — Tim Ryan Copy Share Image
When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%)… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
“Louis said, "There ought to be a comic book about geeks." Dr. McNaughton said, "There are books about geeks." He said, "There… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
Mississippi is a beautiful, powerful state. We have many natural resources: from the fertile soil that produces our crops to the beautiful… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
I hope March is a guide for today's activists. It took raw courage for young people to volunteer to go to Mississippi… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
“J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.” — Bernice McFadden Copy Share Image
“The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The people of Mississippi overwhelmingly voted to keep our flag in 2001. I oppose unilateral action by the governor or the Legislature… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
“You said you left Mississippi in 1854," Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway slave?" "Not at… — Daven Anderson Copy Share Image
Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers.… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
The importance of the Army Corps of Engineers to public safety and economic activity in Mississippi can't be understated. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of… — Leonard Boswell Copy Share Image
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
My statue at Ole Miss is a false idol. And it wasn't put there for my benefit. It was put there for… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But… — Steve McNair Copy Share Image
There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“Memphis can be thought of connected as much to Mississippi and Arkansas as it is to Tennessee, if not more so. William… — Tav Falco Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is any constitutional or statutory authority for any president to shut down Mississippi's economy. — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time… — Sela Ward Copy Share Image
The approach I take to legislation a lot of times is that Mississippi has been a state for 198 years, and if… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
