Appearance Quote by George Catlin

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately…

— William Least Heat-Moon

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

With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable…

— William Alexander Percy

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

Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And…

— Jay Nixon

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 looks like diluted mud by day but by night it's again the grand and majestic river of the days of tomahawks and…

— Rodney P. Romig

Missouri is dear to my heart, and by working together, we can protect and build a Missouri that is successful for the next generation.

— Mike Parson

“I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it…

— Aidan Chambers

“Whilst I viewed those mountains, I felt a secret pleasure in finding myself so near the head of the--heretofore conceived--boundless Missouri. But when I…

— John Bakeless

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of…

— Mike Rounds

“This river is famed in atrocious song and verse; the most prevalent motif is one which attempts to make of the river an ersatz…

— John Kennedy Toole