Mississippi Quotes

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

— Little Milton

Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

— Mike Leach

Mississippi is akin to an underdeveloped country.

— Mike Espy

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.

— James Kavanaugh

“Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi!”

— Fannie Flagg

Medgar Evers is a true Mississippi hero.

— Mike Espy

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

— Matthew Arnold

“In Mississippi it is difficult to achieve a vista.”

— Barry Hannah

I will be a strong voice for Mississippi, and not an echo.

— Mike Espy

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

— Patricia Neal

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

— Ruta Sepetys

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

I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me.

— Mike Espy

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

— Florence King

My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

— Angie Thomas

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

— Jim Harrison

I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

— Jay R. Ferguson

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

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We…

— Bear Bryant

Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars.…

— James Meredith

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

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

I went to a historically Black college in Mississippi, Jackson State University. I also grew up in a small town that had…

— Laphonza Butler

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the…

— Clint Walker

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

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

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

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

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

My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We…

— Charlie Day

Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were…

— Bernard Ebbers

The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

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

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

Her family had no such ties. She was able to forge her way into that world. And then to those people, the…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

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

“Measures were quickly taken throughout Mississippi to outlaw the distribution of the Defender as well as the Crisis, the magazine of the…

— Adrienne Berard

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