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)

    “Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.”
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

    “[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.”
    —Kate Millett (b. 1934)