When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had…

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of…

— Leonard Boswell

To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And…

— Jay Nixon

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

— Mark Twain

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I…

— David Sanborn

“Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.”

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I reached across the aisle to write an economic development bill that addressed poverty in…

— Mike Espy

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year,…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to…

— Susan Glaspell

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like…

— John Fogerty

Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in high school was really important.

— Jonathan Van Ness

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“the total number of dams that alter the Mississippi River watershed is in excess of 50,000.”

— Paul Schneider

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of…

— Charles Kuralt