Cheer Quote by Mark Twain

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

As I grew older I began to realize that Mississippi really wasn't that bad. The basis for progress has always been there. And the…

— Mike Espy

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

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

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going,…

— Hal Boyle

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which…

— George Catlin

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

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round…

— Gregg Harper

Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of…

— Hal Borland

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation…

— Ron Kind

“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