I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid. — Madison Keys 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
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
“Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.” — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
“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
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
“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
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
One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so… — Ron Kind 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
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
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
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
When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life,… — Brad Paisley 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
“Despite all the Indian ruins and the abiding native communities, plaques around Lake Itasca proclaim that Henry Rowe Schoolcraft discovered the source… — Jack Weatherford 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“Among other embarrassments, at the time of which I now write, was the fact that the government wanted to get out all… — Ulysses S. Grant 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
“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
“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
“I write these words in May of 2011, the week after a huge outbreak of tornadoes killed hundreds across the American South;… — Bill McKibben 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
“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
“This river is famed in atrocious song and verse; the most prevalent motif is one which attempts to make of the river… — John Kennedy Toole 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
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise... — Mark Twain 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 wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
