Mark Twain Mississippi River Quotes & Sayings

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ... — Mark Twain

Most having reached the places they needed to be and devoted themselves to what needed to be done. — Jack Campbell

Naturally the question suggests itself, Why did these people want the river now when nobody had wanted it in the five preceding generations? Apparently it was because at this late day they thought they had discovered a way to make it useful; for it had come to be believed that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of California, and therefore afforded a short cut from Canada to China. Previously the supposition had been that it emptied into the Atlantic, or Sea of Virginia. — Mark Twain

I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains. — Jennifer Damiano

I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses." — Phil Ramone

My past behaviour makes me cringe. — Denise Van Outen

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

History teaches us every day; our understanding is the matter! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it ... nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon. — Mark Twain

What makes me say these things is that I see how much you care about the way people look at you. It matters too much to you. And there are people who take advantage of that. They haven't got anything of their own and they'll leave you nothing for yourself. They want to put themselves in your thoughts and in your mind, and that you should care for them. It's a sickness. But they don't want you to care for them as they really are. No, that's the whole stunt. You have to be conscious of them, but not as they are, only as they love to be seen. They live through observation by the ones around them, and they want you to live like that too. Augie darling, don't do it. They will make you suffer from what they are. And you don't really matter to them. — Saul Bellow

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles. — Robert Charles Wilson

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song. — Willie Nelson

One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver - not aloud, but to himself - that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine it, cannot say to it, Go here, or Go there, and make it obey; cannot save a shore which it has sentenced; cannot bar its path with an obstruction which it will not tear down, dance over, and laugh at. — Mark Twain