#mississippi

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

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

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

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

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#exports #illinois #mississippi #mississippi river #percent

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#east #east side #into #land #large