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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“East Texas is red dirt – not red, in sober truth, but the orange of rust, which it basically is, ferrous oxide… — Markham Shaw Pyle 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
I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in… — Lissie Copy Share Image
“The rug says: All Are Friends Who Enter Here. It is from Costco. I have learned about bulk shopping in my four… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Moo inhaled, his nostrils flaring. It was decided then. Slowly, deliberately, he rose from the saddle and began to dismount. He had… — Taylor Brown Copy Share Image
“The plain truth is that you’d have an easier time standing in the middle of the Mississippi River and requesting that it… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for hourse and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I was attracted to black music for the same reason that I loved those old Irish ballads. Both were social statements of… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
