Mississippi Quotes - Page 4

• I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and 6 million dollars to put one negro in the University of Mississippi. That's a police action, police state action.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• 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?

  Will Rogers

  Marine, Rivers, Chinese

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• The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

  T. S. Eliot

  Mean, Rivers, Environmental

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• Old black water, keep on rollin'
  Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?

  Patrick Simmons

  Song, Moon, Water

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• I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

  Kiese Laymon

  Black

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.

  William Alexander Percy

  Country, Mean, Rivers

  William Alexander Percy (1973). “Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son”, p.4, LSU Press

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• Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

  Karen White

  Memories, Heart, Loss

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.12, Penguin

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• The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moon, Mountain, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.25, Delphi Classics

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

  James Kavanaugh

  Feet, Dancing, Dancer

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• I hope March is a guide for today's activists. It took raw courage for young people to volunteer to go to Mississippi in the summer of 1964, and unrelenting faith in the power of democracy to organize such a massive campaign.

  Andrew Aydin

  Summer, People, Volunteer

  "Five questions for John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. August 8, 2016.

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• If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.

  Victoria Gray Adams

  Reason Why, Saws, Detroit

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• It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Weather, Degrees, Nations

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• 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

  Witty, Airports, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.

  Lacey Chabert

  Growing Up, My Sister, Waitress

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Book, Thoughtful, Years

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• I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

  Haley Barbour

  Cutting, Yesterday, Government

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

  Frances McDormand

  Jobs, Believe, Character

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• All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from a wonder of nature to this sluggish canal on the wrong side of the tracks.

  Jonathan Raban

  Technology, Rivers, Track

  Jonathan Raban (1981). “Old Glory, an American Voyage”, Simon & Schuster

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• If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Writing, Past

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• I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

  Shepard Smith

  Kids, Example, Educated

  "Fox News' Shepard Smith Explains What's 'Right' About His Network (Q&A)". Interview with Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2012.

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• As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

  Clint Walker

  Illinois, New Orleans, Rivers

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• My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

  Greg Iles

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Trust, Kings, Dust

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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• On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

  Matthew Arnold

  History, Foam, Bells

  Matthew Arnold (1962). “Lectures and Essays in Criticism”, p.529, University of Michigan Press

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• My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there a lot. We got married in New Orleans. She has a cousin who introduced me to swamp pop, which is sort of zydeco/Cajun music with a little uptempo pop swing. Now I'm a big zydeco fan, I'm a big swamp-music fan.

  Charlie Day

  Cousin, Swings, New Orleans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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