In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut,… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo,… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man;… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family;… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
I used to question this for years - what did our kids actually fight for? They would go in the service and… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama.… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
“The Lamar Life stationary carried on its letterhead an oval portrait of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, for whom the Company had been… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the… — Walter Kirn 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
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
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
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
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
All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963.… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Im an actor. The fact that Im involved in Jigsaw, I dont approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to… — Diplo Copy Share Image
When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life,… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday… — Bill Belichick Copy Share Image
An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there,… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I looked on the television the other night and saw them beating a Negro unmercifully in Mississippi. And this is the result… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. The fact that I'm involved in Jigsaw, I don't approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
“As she drove the Trace, each curve revealing a scene rich with life and as picturesque as illustrations from a children's book,… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
“Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the… — Brad Watson Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“The moon was obscured by heavy clouds. January was already past the mid-mark and the early delta spring would soon be on… — Leslie H. Whitten Jr Copy Share Image
I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
There's no real network, and every city in Mississippi is so spread out, so it isn't easy to drive around and pass… — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
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