“She wasn't sure what Mississippi was, but it must be a horrible thing if it was used as a mantra for the… — John Ringo Copy Share Image
“Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy.” — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Mississippi is a welcoming duty station for servicemembers and their working spouses. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi? — Charles Rangel Copy Share Image
“Everything east of the Mississippi is west of the Mississippi, if you just keep going.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The people of Mississippi overwhelmingly voted to keep our flag in 2001. I oppose unilateral action by the governor or the Legislature… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
“You said you left Mississippi in 1854," Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway slave?" "Not at… — Daven Anderson Copy Share Image
We hunt in Florida, where I live in Jay. I hunt in Alabama a little bit, on my uncle's land. I go… — Boo Weekley Copy Share Image
“J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.” — Bernice McFadden Copy Share Image
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We don't need union bosses to tell us how to take care of our people. We never have, and we never will… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual,… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“The day Glenn Gregg's daddy got back from New Orleans was the same day Lady Sally Anne Montberclair decided to park her… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
“Mississippi begins in the lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee, hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there. — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Whether in public office or right here at home, I will never stop fighting for Mississippi. From the Delta to East Mississippi… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went… — Lacey Chabert Copy Share Image
We've got to replace the statues of Jefferson Davis and JZ George in the U.S. Capitol, and the people of Mississippi ought… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
Mississippi is an imperfect state, and I can predict with certainty that I will reflect that imperfection. Mississippians also strive for excellence,… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
![“His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be doneand secured by your consent to remove to a country beyond the Mississippi… Where you are, it is not possible you can live contented and happy.” quote by Andrew Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d65/andrew-jackson-2317_believe_his-the-president-s-earnest-desire-is-th_581736.jpg)
