I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped,… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember.… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South. — Jay R. Ferguson Copy Share Image
My passion comes from the things that have historically happened to black people in Mississippi. I can honestly say that most of… — David Banner 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 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
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
“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
I'm an actor. The fact that I'm involved in Jigsaw, I don't approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do… — Jo Bonner 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
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
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
“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
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
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
The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At… — River Phoenix 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
All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Im an actor. The fact that Im involved in Jigsaw, I dont approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in… — Tobin Bell 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 used to question this for years - what did our kids actually fight for? They would go in the service and… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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