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
I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Im concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. Theres no question that we have an obligation to help the people of… — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
A moral stand by the sports industry is what finally settled the long, unfortunate debate over Mississippi's state flag. — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher,… — John Lewis 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
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've… — Kathryn Stockett 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
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold… — John Moody Copy Share Image
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a… — Greg Iles 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 for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the matching funds required to trigger… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
Finally, in the Mississippi state Senate, earmarks are often hidden in bond bills, which I have voted against many times, because our… — Chris McDaniel Copy Share Image
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate… — Harold H. Greene Copy Share Image
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its… — George Catlin Copy Share Image
“Maybe he was destined to die under the fading shadow of a plastic dinosaur surrounded by pickpockets, hookers, and panhandlers, but at… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but… — David Alan Grier 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
Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages,… — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has… — Jesmyn Ward 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
The Delta is a conservative place, .. District 28 is a very conservative district. We don't have many conservative districts in the… — Charles Capps Copy Share Image
Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being… — Victoria Gray Adams Copy Share Image
You gotta understand, the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States...Now that has been a very… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
A lot of people I guess, well, some people change when they get in spotlights and everything, but you can take the… — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many… — Fred Shuttlesworth Copy Share Image
We won't look at New Orleans, St. Louis or Memphis again without thinking about making 'Mississippi Grind.' We have a lot of… — Ryan Fleck Copy Share Image
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people… — Fannie Lou Hamer 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
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