(170 quotes found)
“Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico”
William Faulkner
“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
“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
“The flooding is just everywhere... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama,”
Michael Brown
“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
“What an ambassador he's been for the state of Mississippi.”
Bill Nichols
“We're waiting to see the final architectural plans for Biloxi and zoning/building requirements. In keeping with suggestions from (Mississippi Renewal Forum) planners to preserve the water view, we're initially thinking of low-rise parking with hotels and condominiums on top and a walkway or tram to the other side.”
Bernie Burkholder
“The architectural heritage of Mississippi is fabulous, ... really, really marvelous. However, what they have been building the last 30 years is the standard, tawdry strip developments. The government's vision is to start again and do it right.”
Andres Duany
“This is way of telling everybody about Main Street Mississippi and how it works,”
Bob Wilson
