I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From… — Madam C. J. Walker Copy Share Image
See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch… — Junior Kimbrough Copy Share Image
Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches, And soup, And peanut butter cookies, Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you can get a cotton material like a T-shirt, you cut it up, you fold it and put elastic bands around… — Theresa Tam Copy Share Image
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my… — Domenico Dolce Copy Share Image
Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper… — Tamara Mellon Copy Share Image
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… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes. Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings),… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
