“the total number of dams that alter the Mississippi River watershed is in excess of 50,000.” — Paul Schneider 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
“Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.” — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It is from Costco. I have learned about bulk shopping in my four weeks as a Mississippi River resident. Republicans go to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Condoms instantly shot to the number-one position on my mental list of must-find survival supplies, far ahead of food, water, and a… — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Too thick to drink,” as the boatmen used to say about the water of the Mississippi River, “too thin to walk on.” — Paul Schneider Copy Share Image
“As the Mississippi snaked and their old home slipped further away, perhaps Samuel had finally left the curse behind.” — Andrew Galasetti Copy Share Image
All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither… — Eero Saarinen 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
As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I reached across the aisle to write an economic development bill that addressed… — Mike Espy 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
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
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
“One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver—not aloud, but to himself—that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“I could see the cat was definitely on the steps. Still on the steps, 20 minutes after Carl's call. This was strange;… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Before these laws could be put into effect, a new wave of white settlers swept westward and formed the territories of Wisconsin… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“A humorous treatment of the rigid uniformitarian view came from Mark Twain. Although the shortening of the Mississippi River he referred to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One of the chief ways to lure farmers from the hills to the banks of the Mississippi River, Walter Sillers Jr. and… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
“And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“She said that time was like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. She meant you could never go back.… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in… — Jonathan Van Ness Copy Share Image
My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this… — Leonard Boswell Copy Share Image
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
“about Minnesota he tells me all about it—how it became a state just over seventy years ago and is now the twelfth… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even… — John Moody Copy Share Image
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