“I'm very relieved it didn't go into the mouth of the Mississippi, ... That would have been catastrophic.”
Andrea Phillips
“When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.”
Mark Twain
“Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico”
William Faulkner
“The flooding is just everywhere... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama,”
Michael Brown
“I have yet to meet (a socialist) who was not as gullible as a Mississippi darkey - nay, as a Mississippi white man”
Henry Louis Mencken
“That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.”
Muddy Waters
“Mississippi has worked hard to entice avid golf-and-gaming travelers to visit our great state, because we knew if we got them here once, they would come back. The sales increases demonstrate the rising trend of visitors to Mississippi and we hope increasingly more visitors will judge our offerings for themselves.”
D. Craig Ray
