I'll live in another world, then.
Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?
If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.
Don't want to think about it? No problem. Don't think about it.
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus.
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.
Dr. Simon Tam: River... River Tam: I know. We're going for a ride.
Colonel Green: Good show! Jolly good show, Major!
Colonel Nicholson: Queer bird... even for an American.
I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from...
Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with Fre...
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a singl...
Deputy Pell: You got no right to be here. This is a political meeting. Ward: Doesn't smell that way to me, Deputy. Deputy Pell: It's a damn political meeting, Hoover Boy. Ward: Oh, it looks like a political meeting, but smells more like Klan to me......
Ward: Just don't lose sight of whose rights are being violated! Anderson: Don't put me on your perch, Mr. Ward. Ward: Don't drag me into your gutter, Mr. Anderson! Anderson: These people are crawling out of the SEWER, MR. WARD! Maybe the gutter's whe...
[the FBI saved Lester Cowans from a lynching] Anderson: You're lucky we've been watching your ass, Lester. Ward: If you go on the record, Mr. Cowans, we'll give you protection. If not... Anderson: If not, they're going to kill you anyway. [sniffs] An...
I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning o...
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer ...
No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.
The water of the river flows on without waiting for the thirsty man.
