Quotes of: Mississippi-river Keyword

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

Ronnie Musgrove

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

Beth Henley

Anderson: Down here they say rattlesnakes don't commit suicide.

Mississippi Burning

Mrs. Pell: If you're ever in Des Moines, don't send me a postcard.

Mississippi Burning

Before I had studied Chan for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and rivers as rivers. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and rivers are not rivers. But now that I h...

Qingyuan Weixin

Whoever crossed the river at the fordable point, knows how deep the river is.

Basque

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

Muddy Waters

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.

Danny Glover

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

Roman Coppola

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.

Buddy Guy

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

Jerry Rice

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".

David L. Cohn

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

Jim Harrison

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

Morgan Freeman

Mrs. Pell: You marry the first guy that makes you laugh.

Mississippi Burning

[last lines] Agent Ward: You wanna drive, Rupert? Agent Anderson: Yeah.

Mississippi Burning

Anderson: Did you make a speech like that the night you beat your wife?

Mississippi Burning

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.

American

Chihiro: Haku, listen. I just remembered something from a long time ago, I think it may help you. Once, when I was little, I dropped my shoe into a river. When I tried to get it back I fell in. I thought I'd drown but the water carried me to shore. I...

Spirited Away

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.

Coming of Age in Mississippi