Delta Quotes
49 quotes by 47 authors
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Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force -…
— Edwidge Danticat
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Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
— Tanya Tucker
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The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American.…
— Tim Cahill
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The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now…
— George R. R. Martin
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I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The…
— Marty Stuart
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The Delta is a conservative place, .. District 28 is a very conservative district. We don't have many conservative districts in the Delta. Mississippi is…
— Charles Capps
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In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no…
— Robert Bateman
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I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
— Charles Evers
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My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
— Mark Knopfler
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
— Jack Nicholson
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Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of…
— Robert Plant
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For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say…
— Jill Scott
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Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't…
— Aldous Huxley
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If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you…
— Jean Toomer
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Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through…
— Alex Garland
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When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know…
— Ahmed H. Zewail
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with…
— Adrienne Rich
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The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our…
— Patrick Ness
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I love Delta Burke!
— Brooke Elliott
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When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.
— James Bay
Who Wrote These Delta Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 49 Delta Quotes, led by these top contributors: