Best Mississippi Sayings

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise... — Mark Twain
My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully… — Bruce Cockburn
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico — William Faulkner
I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954. — Oprah Winfrey
My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales… — David Alan Grier
Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching does no good. — Darrel Ray
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair… — Ron Kind
An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of… — John Hospers
I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game. — Jerry Rice
The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead! — Stokely Carmichael
Nothing could stop Mississippi. — Gwendolyn Brooks
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period… — Mark Twain
New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in… — Ned Sublette
I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so… — Steve McNair
I'm a country guy from Mississippi who keeps it simple. — Steve McNair
Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to secede from the… — Walter E. Williams
As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to… — Clint Walker
I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi. — Shepard Smith
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed… — William H. Seward
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from… — Jonathan Raban
I'm from the Mississippi delta originally. — Little Milton
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of… — Tate Taylor
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes… — Tate Taylor
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through. — Muddy Waters
After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to… — Frances McDormand

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