I'm the son of a woman who grew up in Waycross, Georgia…

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

— Glen Campbell

I did [picking cotton] from - until I was 18 years old, that is. Then I picked the guitar, and I've been picking it since.

— Johnny Cash

There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

“it ain't as hard as picking cotton”

— wynton marsalis

I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents…

— Willie Nelson

On my worst day I always tell myself I'm not in a field picking cotton.

— Mellody Hobson

Son, a woman is a lot like a... a refrigerator! They're about six feet tall, 300 pounds. They make ice, and... um... Oh, wait…

— Nikhil Saluja

“Aside from the fact that you’re not my son, and I’m not a woman, do you think I’m a good mother?”

— Jarod Kintz

Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But…

— Dan Castellaneta

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of…

— Helen Rowland

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

— Marge Piercy

[Tom Cotton] has been an absolute champion of the idea of getting rid of Obamacare, scrapping the Affordable Care Act.

— Rachel Maddow

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin',…

— Ira Gershwin

Senator [Tom] Cotton has campaigned on wanting to kill Obamacare. He voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act back in January, but he now…

— Rachel Maddow

My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of cotton against…

— Temple Grandin