Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience. — Patricia Neal Copy Share Image
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A. — Israel Broussard Copy Share Image
I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi. — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars.… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive… — Karen White 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
I went to a historically Black college in Mississippi, Jackson State University. I also grew up in a small town that had… — Laphonza Butler 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
The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi,… — Davy Crockett 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
Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were… — Bernard Ebbers Copy Share Image
The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“And out in the rural, when Mrs. Laura McGhee--who if she thought it necessary, sat on the porch with her Winchester rifle--permitted… — Charles E. Cobb Jr Copy Share Image
Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Her family had no such ties. She was able to forge her way into that world. And then to those people, the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Measures were quickly taken throughout Mississippi to outlaw the distribution of the Defender as well as the Crisis, the magazine of the… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
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