Top 548 Mississippi Delta Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
If Christmas is for families, what do you do when there are families scattered all over the country? I am pretty sure God wants to make sure I touch all the bases, even if I spend his actual birthday with Delta Airlines.
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.
There is no doubt in my mind that we need to spend more money on roads and bridges in Mississippi.
I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a movie called 'The Delta Factor,' and I met lot of painters and fell in love with their folk art.
The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.
I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.
I'm the only candidate running for governor that opposes Obamacare expansion in Mississippi.
I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.
I got to know Peyton Manning when he was a high school junior and I was the offensive coordinator at Mississippi State.
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.
America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico
We need a governor focused on job creation, bringing better and higher paying jobs to Mississippi.
My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.
The conditions in the prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections are absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional.
I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.
If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.
I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid.
There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.
I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.
Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines
I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.
This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi.
In the public's mind, Special Forces are often confused with the 'door kickers' of Special Operations Forces - such as SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force - who are the United States' elite counterterrorism operators.
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.
It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.
I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.
The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
My family is from New Orleans. My grandma is French. Everybody else is from Mississippi - Creole people.
That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.
The economic importance of small businesses in Mississippi has always been significant, and it's well positioned to increase.
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.
Growing up in the Delta region was an important part of how I learned to dedicate myself to working hard and gaining the leadership skills necessary to helping Alabama and our region grow and prosper.
Air service is an important asset for rural communities in Mississippi.
Mississippi is a welcoming duty station for servicemembers and their working spouses.
It is a great honor to serve Mississippi as its first female United States Senator.
The importance of the Army Corps of Engineers to public safety and economic activity in Mississippi can't be understated.
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.
It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.
I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.
Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.
The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
My dad is in Mississippi. He exited the Navy and made a ton of money as an entrepreneur.
If you're able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you're able to tackle anything around the world because you're able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I'm concerned.
My first car was a 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Ugly car. More ugly on this car than a Rolling Stones group photo.
In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.