#sip

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#arkansas #back #bank #come #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

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. ↗

— Frances Burney

#easily #mind #naturally #pleasure #prone

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#concerned #cost #else #everybody #everybody else

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

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

'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts." ..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her... ↗

— Lynn Dove

#gossip #hypocrisy #rejection #religion #shooting-the-wounded