#sissi

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi. ↗

— George Catlin

#character #different #enter #felt #manner

Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain. ↗

— Mildred D. Taylor

#mississippi-writers #family

The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi. ↗

— Larry Brown

#family

Eine Move bin ich von keinem Land, Meine Heimat nenne ich keinen Srrand, Mich bindet nicht Ort und nicht Stelle; Ich fliege von Welle zu Welle. A seagull am I without a land, Or any shore to call my home. No place can hold me fast As I fly from wave to wave. ↗

— Empress Elizabeth

#sisi #sissi #home

Lord, Please forgive Robert Johnson. ↗

— Anonymous

#delta #mississippi #music #forgiveness

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