Cotton Quotes

I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins.

— Will Ferrell

Cotton is my life.

— Billy Baldwin

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

— Eli Whitney

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

— Mellody Hobson

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

— Dorothy Malone

When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton.

— Chael Sonnen

I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job.

— Evan Mecham

Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola...

— Mark Pryor

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.

— Phil Gramm

Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear.

— Phil Gramm

African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.

— Philip Freelon

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

— Osamu Dazai

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and…

— Pinetop Perkins

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

— Joseph Mitchell

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

— Yukio Mishima

Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.

— Peter Lawford

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

— Tadashi Yanai

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not…

— Richard Hovey

Senator [Tom Cotton] got a ton of blowback. He became the star of fake missing person's signs, encouraging folks to call if…

— Rachel Maddow

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it?…

— Andy Rooney

Senator [Tom] Cotton and his fellow lawmakers are back in D.C. and Republicans are split, they are divided about what to do…

— Rachel Maddow

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in…

— Roger Bannister

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there…

— Johnny Cash

Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from…

— Harper Lee

I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was…

— Birdy

Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm…

— Clark Gable

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads…

— Anonymous

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important…

— Maya Angelou

The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is…

— Alex Shoumatoff

One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up…

— Sylvia Plath

A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was…

— Aravind Adiga

The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds…

— Calvin Coolidge

I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said…

— John Joseph Griffin

Cotton candy. Like eating a cloud of diabetes.

— Dana Gould

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

— Benjamin Graham

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

— Glen Campbell

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.

— Ashley Madekwe