Top Mississippi Quotes
I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
Muddy Waters
The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
Kinky Friedman
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.
Saxby Chambliss
Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
Bear Bryant
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.
John Moody
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Danny Glover 
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I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
Muddy Waters 
70% of people like this quote
The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
Kinky Friedman
63% of people like this quote
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.
Saxby Chambliss
61% of people like this quote
Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
Bear Bryant
59% of people like this quote
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.
John Moody
58% of people like this quote
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
Charles Rangel
57% of people like this quote
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
Constance Baker Motley
56% of people like this quote
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
Paul Robeson
56% of people like this quote
Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.
Jerry Costello
56% of people like this quote
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
Muddy Waters
56% of people like this quote
Popular Mississippi Authors
Catherine DeneuveF. Scott FitzgeraldMorgan FreemanWilliam FaulknerOprah WinfreyKinky FriedmanConstance Baker MotleyJimmy BuffettJim HarrisonZebulon PikeRon KindJo BonnerMartin Van BurenElliott SmithHarold H. Greene
Jerry CostelloBeth HenleySam DonaldsonCharles RangelPaul RobesonSela WardLeonard BoswellJohn MoodyMuddy WatersRoger WickerWilliam H. SewardIke TurnerDanny GloverBear BryantRichard Parks Bland
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