#mississippi

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#hear #mississippi #old #records #sound

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#alabama #carolina #chicago #church #connected

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#baseball #catch #dad #farm #first

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

— Beth Henley

#grew #i #jackson #mississippi #mother

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. ↗

— Beth Henley

#alone #christmas #class #dime #i

While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do what we can to help our neighbors - not only our immediate neighbors here in Alabama, but those further away in Mississippi and Louisiana. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#away #certainly #each #further #help

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#could #elvis #hippies #hips #his

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. ↗

— Ron Kind

#locks #many #mississippi #mississippi river #most

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#god #mississippi #saying #texas #thank

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

#absolute necessity #act #after #became #congress