Top 470 Mississippi Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 20, 2024.
That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.
I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.
I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.
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.
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.
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.
I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.
I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.
The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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.
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
I got to know Peyton Manning when he was a high school junior and I was the offensive coordinator at Mississippi State.
We need a governor focused on job creation, bringing better and higher paying jobs to Mississippi.
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.
In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.
The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.
I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from 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.
It is a great honor to serve Mississippi as its first female United States Senator.
It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.
Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.
The economic importance of small businesses in Mississippi has always been significant, and it's well positioned to increase.
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.
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico
Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.
My family is from New Orleans. My grandma is French. Everybody else is from Mississippi - Creole people.
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.
My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.
Mississippi is home to a significant level of national defense work, such as shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, and critical research.
I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.
It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
My dad is in Mississippi. He exited the Navy and made a ton of money as an entrepreneur.
My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.
I'm the only candidate running for governor that opposes Obamacare expansion in Mississippi.
In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
Mississippi State University and other institutions are established leaders in the development and integration of unmanned aerial systems.
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.
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi.
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.
The turkey oak can grow practically submerged within the wetlands of Mississippi, its leaves soft as a newborn's skin.
I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid.
There is no doubt in my mind that we need to spend more money on roads and bridges in Mississippi.
I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.
America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.
I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.
