Top 470 Mississippi Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
In Mississippi, black and white live cheek by jowl, day in and day out.
If I go into the Mississippi Delta at pitch black midnight and put on a Robert Johnson record, it's hard to sit in the car because it's pretty powerful.
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.
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.
We won't look at New Orleans, St. Louis or Memphis again without thinking about making 'Mississippi Grind.' We have a lot of memories.
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.
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.
Many of Mississippi's veterans and their families know the hardship associated with driving long distances to access VA healthcare benefits.
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.
Many veterans in Mississippi struggle with the bureaucratic process of the Veterans Administration.
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 grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.
My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
Mississippi farmers and ranchers continually deal with factors that can mean disaster, which is why they look for certainty and flexibility in farm programs.
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.
President Biden is the duly-elected president and we will do everything we can to work with him to help the citizens of Mississippi.
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.
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.
Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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.
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.
It was a culture shock at first, moving from Michigan to Mississippi. But it ended up being the best decision I ever made.
Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control.
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.
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.
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
We deliberately filled our rainy-day fund to its statutory capacity over my time leading the Mississippi Senate as lieutenant governor.
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.
I don't believe there is any constitutional or statutory authority for any president to shut down Mississippi's economy.
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.
[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.
My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi River.
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
We will right the wrongs of the past, and we will do everything in our power to protect the dignity of every Mississippi life.
In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.
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?
Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
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.
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.
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.
I have great respect for Senator Cochran and the years of service he gave to Mississippi and the nation. I'll do my best to measure up to the standard he set as public servant - and as a pianist.
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?
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.
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.
Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in high school was really important.
A moral stand by the sports industry is what finally settled the long, unfortunate debate over Mississippi's state flag.
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.
Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric
messages, galvanizing my genes.
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.
The people of Mississippi, black and white, and young and old, can be proud of a banner that puts our faith front and center. We can unite under it. We can move forward together.