The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The other great innovation are things like Transparent or One Mississippi on Amazon, Master of None on Netflix, and those half-hours. It's… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year,… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
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
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
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina.… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New… — Oliver Evans Copy Share Image
One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Mississippi used to be able to do whatever it wanted to do, until the United States found out about it. And now… — John Pritchard Copy Share Image
These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The people of Mississippi can't just go home, shut down their small business, shut down their restaurants, shut down their gyms... and… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life… — Taylor Spreitler 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
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 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
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
“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
You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and… — Fannie Lou Hamer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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