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Letter "M" » Mississippi
«The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Mississippi, patterns, sentence, slipping, sock, socks, Southerner
«The Mississippi meanders down the spine of America.»
«The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.»
«I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.»
Author: Phil Donahue
| About:
Justice
| Keywords:
campaigned, Mississippi, Nader, program, Ralph, Ralph Nader, Three Weeks, weeks
«Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.»
Author: Jimmy Buffett
(Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
Elvis, hipped, hippie, hippies, hips, Mississippi, Northeast, redneck, rednecks
«A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.»
Author: Tiger Woods
(Golfer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Equality,
Goals
| Keywords:
black person, in the United States, Mississippi, wealthiest
«To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi»
«When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
discontinue, discontinued, farmer, jail, Mississippi, Mississippi River, old school, proposition, public schools, spoke, township
«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.»
«Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
extends, gulf, Gulf of, Gulf of Mexico, hotel, lobby, lobbying, Mississippi, South, Tennessee
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