Mississippi river Quote by Paul Schneider

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

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

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately,…

— Sylvia Earle

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

“In all, by the end of the twentieth century mankind had built some 45,000 large dams; during the global peak of dam building in…

— Steven Solomon

We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty…

— Eduardo Bhatia

“A dam is monumentally static; it tries to bring a river under control, to regulate its seasonal pattern of floods and low flow.”

— Patrick McCully

In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes,…

— Ron Kind

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise...

— Mark Twain

Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part.

— Hal Borland

While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an…

— Ron Kind