Quotes About The Mississippi Delta

#1. I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

Charley Pride

#2. I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

Mose Allison

#3. I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

Little Milton

#4. Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.

John Grisham

#5. Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.

Nina Easton

#6. The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.

Lewis Nordan

#7. The moon was obscured by heavy clouds. January was already past the mid-mark and the early delta spring would soon be on them. Already on the night was the faint, fresh smell of buddings and the intimacy that comes from the warm delta air trapped between slumbering earth and lowering clouds.

Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

#8. Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

Robert Plant

#9. I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music ... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

Robbie Robertson

#10. I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

Mary Ann Mobley

#11. For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.

John Doar

#12. Mississippi blood is different. It's got some river in it. Delta soil, turpentine, asbestos, cotton poison. But there's strength in it, too. Strength that's been beat but not broke.

Greg Iles

#13. Wagner cleared his throat once again, then pounded a few chords on the piano. But something unexpected happened when he started to sing. He sounded like Kermit the Frog being run over.

Dylan Callens

#14. To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV.

Nina Dobrev

#15. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Insecurity isn't an attractive quality in a man.

Ingrid Weir

#17. We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight cold gray rain of Delta summers, wonderful rain. -Mexico

Ellen Gilchrist

#18. War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Phil Klay

#19. The Delta is a conservative place, .. District 28 is a very conservative district. We don't have many conservative districts in the Delta. Mississippi is a conservative place. We need to keep it that way.

Charles Capps

#20. Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

Lewis Nordan

#21. Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my concentration. Christovao (Chris) Santos, Sanctuary

Sharon K. Garner

#22. Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.

John Lewis

#23. Truth in art is truth n circumstances.

Konstantin Stanislavsky

#24. If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and

M. Scott Peck

#25. The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because he is already there.

David P. Gontar

#26. I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.

David Tennant

#27. That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

Muddy Waters

#28. May the light of the morning sun shine upon you. May the deepest and sweetest love always find you.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

Robert Breault

#30. I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

Dick Armey

#31. White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.

Andrea Tantaros

#32. The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

Charles Kuralt