Mississippi City Population

Famous quotes containing the words mississippi, city and/or population:

    ““Where is the Mississippi panorama
    And the girl who played the piano?
    Where are you, Walt?
    The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    “Hell is a city much like London—
    A populous and a smoky city;
    There are all sorts of people undone,
    And there is little or no fun done;
    Small justice shown, and still less pity.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough ... had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)