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“All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.”

Trying Song Effects Lovers Standards Bird Seasons Saint Tone Organs Repetition Sentimental Crow Mississippi Habitual Comical Quoting Tennyson

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.”

Born Mississippi

Author:Patricia Neal

“To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself”

“I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.”

Black White Rights Movement Folks Civil Rights Frightened Civil Rights Movement Mississippi

Author:Dick Gregory

“Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.”

Stories Home Order Social Taught Complexes Cynical Mississippi Social Order Observant Delta Turf Mississippi Delta

Author:John Grisham

“Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.”

Feels Past Novel Grace Wise Safe Depth Neighbor Novelists Shock Unusual Richness Mississippi Past And Present Effortless

Author:Tom Perrotta

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

Whole South Spread Texas Mississippi Dallas Whole Family Arkansas

Author:Jay R. Ferguson

“I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That hurts, and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get. I've known people that would have problems with their love life. This is kind of how blues began - out of feeling misused, mistreated. Feeling like they had nobody to turn to. Blues don't necessarily have to be sung by a person that came from Mississippi as I did, because there are people having problems all over the world.”

People World Feels Kind Persons Feelings Problem Turns Hurt Known Love Life Mississippi Misused Mistreated

Author:B. B. King

“Im an actor. The fact that Im involved in Jigsaw, I dont approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in The Firm or FBI Agent Stokes in Mississippi Burning. Its the same deal. Its just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, How does it feel to be a horror icon? Im thrilled. Its great.”

People Feels Doe Different Sometimes Facts Actors Asks Deals Effects Involved Horror Approach Agents Burning Ask Me Firm Icons Fbi Mississippi Jigsaw Nordic Stoke Fbi Agents

Author:Tobin Bell

“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.”

People Helping Cost Concerned Obligation Mississippi Louisiana

Author:Saxby Chambliss

“Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.”

Years States Sports Common Golf Rounds Folks Range Fishing Hunting Misconception Mississippi Vikings Electronics

Author:Gregg Harper

“I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history.” Trethewey said. Coincidentally, she was born “exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.”

“The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.”

Doe States Water Dark Morning Sun Promise Moon Rain Blue Wide Dawn Lakes Autumn Eagles Mississippi Rosy Sun Rise Delta Deep Water Mississippi Delta

Book:Wolf Whistle

Source: Wolf Whistle

“I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve come, because we hadnt come very far, to say the least. Although Jacksons population was half white and half black, I didnt have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.”

Looks Persons School Black Born White Half Population Neighbor Mississippi Black Person Jackson Mississippi

Author:Kathryn Stockett

“Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be handed to you. I’d get the letters from all the major schools but no one came out to talk to me face to face until this small, dominant black school, Mississippi State Valley University sent a coach out to me. I had a chance to talk to him and he said, ‘Hey Jerry, we’re going to be doing some great things at Mississippi Valley State University and we would love to have you there.’”

“I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.”

Sometimes Remember Guy Black Fields Impression Mississippi Delta Mississippi Delta

Author:Mose Allison

“The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.”

People I Can Speak Consciousness Speech Shoes Average Patterns Sentences Faster Sock Mississippi Slipping Southerner

Book:The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

“His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be doneand secured by your consent to remove to a country beyond the Mississippi.... Where you are, it is not possible you can live contented and happy.”

Believe May Country Desire Nations President Remove Where You Are Consent Earnest Mississippi Secured

Author:Andrew Jackson

“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.”

Fall Messages Red Graves Hills Brown Call Me Genes Electric Grandfather My Grandfather Mississippi

Book:Poems from prison

Source: Poems from prison

“I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.”

Race Genuine Mississippi Michigan Sociability

Author:Jim Harrison

“New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.”

“Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.”

People Thinking Knows Running Church Decision Office Hollywood South Connected Executives Chicago Mississippi Carolina Alabama South Carolina

Author:Steve Harvey

“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.”

Firsts President Dad Baseball Seasons Balls Farms Mississippi

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“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?”

Ifs Rivers Chinese Marine Mississippi Laundry Memphis Mississippi River

Author:Will Rogers

“Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.”

Two States Mississippi Quarterback Mississippi State

Author:Mike Leach

“It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.”

“I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.”

States Determined Mississippi I Am Determined

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.”

Feet Beats Treats Dancing Dancer Mud Mississippi Mississippi River

Author:James Kavanaugh

“We have lost a true public servant with the passing of Alan Nunnelee, who dedicated so much of his life to improving Mississippi, my thoughts and prayers are with Tori and the entire Nunnelee family at this sad time.”

Life Lost Prayer Passing Passings Servant Dedicated Improving My Thoughts Mississippi Public Servants Thoughts And Prayers Sad Times

Author:Thad Cochran

“I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.”

“From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.”

“Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.”

Source: Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

“I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.”

I Can Cold Raised Bread Weather Heat Mississippi Bread And Butter Cold Weather Humidity Heat And Humidity

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I am all about breaking barriers and challenging myself, that is why everything I have done on my resume is different. I have never played a cop again, and I have never played a boxer again since I played Muhammad Ali. That was a challenge, being darker than him, and the film won Best Television Movie and I was a part of that. I was in Mississippi Burning, which won an Oscar.”

Different Done Film Challenges Television Burning Barriers Cop Oscars Muhammad Mississippi Boxers Resumes Challenging Myself

Author:Darius McCrary

“It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it's equal, but the time to fight that battle is gone. Without Louisiana and Mississippi working together, Louisiana might have gotten a lot less than that. That's just the reality of politics.”

Looks Two Hard States Reality Might Together Fighting Gone Amount Battle Equal Damage Working Together Mississippi Louisiana

Author:Tim Ryan

“The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.”

Lines Economy Discovery Gold Absolutes West Congress Conviction East Providing Pacific Surveys Mississippi Railroads

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.”

States United United States Rivers Lays Mere East Extensions Mississippi Railroads Mississippi River

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.”

“History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods”

Falsehood Mississippi

Author:Matthew Arnold

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

Knows Should Sometimes Repeats Originality Location Mississippi

Book:Mr. Sammler's Planet

Source: Mr. Sammler's Planet

“[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.”

Long Country Lost Natural Ignorance Resources Rivers Consumers Reserves Herds Natural Resources Mississippi Buffalo Mississippi River

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.”

“When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.”

Looks Bigs Cities Mississippi Big Cities

Author:Roy Oswalt

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!”

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

People Looks Eye Love Is Rivers Veins Mississippi Mississippi River

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.”

Giving Wanted Grows Growing Up Mississippi Delta Mississippi Delta

Author:Charley Pride

“I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.”

Summer Rain This Day Horizon Rainbow Spectacular Mississippi Summer Rain

Book:Pride: the Charley Pride story

Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story

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

States Teacher Son Rivers Idiot My Son Spells Mississippi

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian descent, but they called him the "Mad Potter of Biloxi." I'd love to do a great character study and comedy about that guy's life. That would be my dream role. I know it's an oddball thing, but it's true. He lived at the turn of the century, in the 1800s.”

Knows Character Dream Would Be Guy Turns Names Roles Study Comedy Century Mad Potters That Guy Mississippi Descent Great Character Oddballs

Author:Lance Henriksen

“I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.”

Ifs Firsts Guy Cities Streets New York Smart First Time New York City Mississippi Ohio Street Smart

Author:J. B. Smoove

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