Mississippi Quotes · Page 5

“You can take the girl out of Mississippi but you can't take the Mississippi out of the girl.”

— Kristi Cook

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

— Jerry Costello

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

— Muddy Waters

“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Coast Guard has a strong presence in Mississippi and on its waterways.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

— Charley Pride

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

— William Faulkner

Cindy-Hyde Smith is hurting Mississippi - our progress and our reputation - and we simply must replace her.

— Mike Espy

The importance of the Army Corps of Engineers to public safety and economic activity in Mississippi can't be understated.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

We don't need union bosses to tell us how to take care of our people. We never have, and we never will…

— Tate Reeves

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks…

— Bill Bryson

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he…

— Seth Godin

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice…

— Paul Robeson

“J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.”

— Bernice McFadden

I hope March is a guide for today's activists. It took raw courage for young people to volunteer to go to Mississippi…

— Andrew Aydin

We hunt in Florida, where I live in Jay. I hunt in Alabama a little bit, on my uncle's land. I go…

— Boo Weekley

I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It…

— John Lewis

[My mother] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to…

— Anonymous

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had…

— Alice Walker

Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing…

— Gregg Harper

In talking about the [Emmett Till murder trial], you have to repeat the atmosphere. This is Mississippi in 1955, with a long…

— Charles Diggs

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

“The day Glenn Gregg's daddy got back from New Orleans was the same day Lady Sally Anne Montberclair decided to park her…

— Lewis Nordan

I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Unfortunately, I saw a side of humanity I wish I'd remained blissfully ignorant of, including one driver who threw a bottle at…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to…

— James Madison

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

— Muddy Waters

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

— Sylvester Stallone

My dad is in Mississippi. He exited the Navy and made a ton of money as an entrepreneur.

— Brianna Wu

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

— Patty Jenkins

Mississippi is a welcoming duty station for servicemembers and their working spouses.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

In Mississippi, black and white live cheek by jowl, day in and day out.

— Greg Iles

In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

— Lance Bass

“Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy.”

— Shelby Foote

When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.

— Roy Oswalt

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

— Alice Walker