Cotton Quotes

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

— Temple Grandin

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

— 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'…

— Ira Gershwin

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

— Rachel Maddow

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society…

— Helen Keller

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

— Anonymous

The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.…

— Margaret Atwood

For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl…

— Stephanie Coontz

We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton…

— Willie Nelson

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step…

— Beatrix Potter

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their…

— Jesse Jackson

I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus.

— Patrick Fabian

At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that…

— Gretchen Rubin

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

I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.

— Steve Carell

Let me make a point here, in case this isn't becoming extremely clear. My state has gun control laws. It did not…

— Suzanna Hupp

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his…

— Johnny Cash

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

Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're…

— Nate Berkus

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

— Evan Mecham

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

— Clark Gable

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify…

— Roger Bannister