#sissi

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#cost-effective #country #efficient #environmentally #goods

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#case #constitutes #efforts #exception #government

Old age is no place for sissies. ↗

— Bette Davis

#old #old age #place #sissies

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for? ↗

— Muddy Waters

#get #go #i #mississippi #out

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#comment #less #little #look #mississippi

The internet is not for sissies. ↗

— Paul Vixie

#internet #sissies

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#down #exactly #felt #i #just

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

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#beyond #books #conquer #discovered #farm

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. ↗

— Danny Glover

#almost #becoming #education #freedom #graduated