I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most…

First used to say, well into the river! Now used to say, By virtue of having shoes, I eat you I you eat

— Mak_786

“The pillow looked astonished, wondering what ended the late night river that used to run through it, but only he knows that she is…

— Ismaaciil C. Ubax

I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was…

— Anonymous

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.

— Miranda July

There's something about it to me, the feeling of the water, and feeling, I don't know, equal, and like everyone else. Which is kind…

— Jessica Long

“It made sense now—the lake’s fierce reaction. It was his anti-magic responding to that of his dead ancestors, sensing the twisting vines of their…

— Bella Forrest

For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be…

— Netta Barzilai

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

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

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

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

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

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