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
It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it's equal, but the time to… — Tim Ryan Copy Share Image
“The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta. — Tony Todd 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
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
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city. — Roy Oswalt 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
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
Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
“Harris loved to read and he shared everything he read. He read to whoever happened to be in the room from whatever… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad. — Lance Bass Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
