Best Mississippi Quotes
194 Mississippi quotes by 148 unique authors
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The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk nor…
— Eero Saarinen
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In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
— Lance Bass
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All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom…
— Sherwood Anderson
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The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store…
— Beth Henley
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Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Here's to the State of Mississippi,
— Phil Ochs
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One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses,…
— Ron Kind
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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
— Constance Baker Motley
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
— Pat Buchanan
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The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
— Mort Sahl
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Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one…
— Alison McGhee
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If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.'…
— Bennie Thompson
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With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god…
— William Alexander Percy
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There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like…
— Andrei Codrescu
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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays
— Beth Henley
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In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.
— Florence King
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They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out…
— Ike Turner
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I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in…
— Phil Donahue
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Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
— Knute Nelson
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Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?
— Charles Rangel
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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the…
— Charles Rangel
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Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech…
— Roger Wicker
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there…
— Oprah Winfrey
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