Mississippi river Quote by Christina Baker Kline

“bear Indian names such as Yukon, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan in the north, and Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Arizona in the south. Often these…

— Jack Weatherford

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?

— Rodney Dangerfield

The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year,…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more…

— Keith Ellison

The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer…

— T. S. Eliot

We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its…

— John Daniel

“They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario and at…

— Susan Magsamen

The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as…

— Mark Twain

I grew up in Minnesota.

— Anonymous

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

— Al Franken

“All nations have rivers, lakes and streams, but the continental United States has been blessed with an abundance of fresh water lakes (such as…

— John Price

I grew up on a lake on the border of Washington and Idaho.

— Sydney Sweeney