Authors Quote by Ron Kind

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

— Mark Twain

As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple…

— Ron Kind

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 River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of…

— Charles Kuralt

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

One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could…

— Ron Kind

The Coast Guard has a strong presence in Mississippi and on its waterways.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

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

We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light…

— Richard Dean Anderson

They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.

— John Anderson

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

— Rodney Dangerfield