Quote by Greg Iles

“Mississippi used to be able to do whatever it wanted to do, until the United States found out about it. And now that Mississippi…

— John Pritchard

“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her…

— Mark Twain

“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

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

“The Mississippi was now in our possession from its source to its mouth, except in the immediate front of Vicksburg and of Port Hudson.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

“One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver—not aloud, but to himself—that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their…

— Mark Twain

Mississippi is a beautiful, powerful state. We have many natural resources: from the fertile soil that produces our crops to the beautiful coastline that…

— Tate Reeves

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

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Land lasts longer than blood or love. It is not like a river.”

— Annick Smith

“World is my Louisiana, I am its Mississippi.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its…

— Jack Kerouac