Top 548 Mississippi Delta Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Nowadays, kids need promises to play. And I'm not gonna lie, I almost went to Mississippi. But that's the best thing I did, when I changed my mind and went to Miami.

Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.

Mississippi is home to a significant level of national defense work, such as shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, and critical research.

I think I have become a very strong person. 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.

The turkey oak can grow practically submerged within the wetlands of Mississippi, its leaves soft as a newborn's skin.

In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.

Mississippi farmers and ranchers continually deal with factors that can mean disaster, which is why they look for certainty and flexibility in farm programs.

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

Im concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. Theres no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.

Many veterans in Mississippi struggle with the bureaucratic process of the Veterans Administration.

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

We won't look at New Orleans, St. Louis or Memphis again without thinking about making 'Mississippi Grind.' We have a lot of memories.

Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control.

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s answering high beams to the northeast. This 4,258 mile braid of human life, first navigated end-to-end in 2004, is visible in a single glance from space.

In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

I don't know how many ways I can explain this to y'all but I'm opposed to Obamacare expansion in Mississippi because it is not in the best interest of taxpayers.

A moral stand by the sports industry is what finally settled the long, unfortunate debate over Mississippi's state flag.

If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that-so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery.

It was a culture shock at first, moving from Michigan to Mississippi. But it ended up being the best decision I ever made.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.

I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.

We deliberately filled our rainy-day fund to its statutory capacity over my time leading the Mississippi Senate as lieutenant governor.

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

I don't believe there is any constitutional or statutory authority for any president to shut down Mississippi's economy.

Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

Mississippi State University and other institutions are established leaders in the development and integration of unmanned aerial systems.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Many of Mississippi's veterans and their families know the hardship associated with driving long distances to access VA healthcare benefits.

The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west you've got Delta blues. Sprinkle Southern gospel over the top of that, and you're talking about where I came from. I loved all of that music.

The reason I'm opposed to raising the gas tax is I believe it would hurt working Mississippi families more so than anybody else in the state.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.

I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.

I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

In Mississippi, black and white live cheek by jowl, day in and day out.

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.