My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . .… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
“The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.” — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the… — Sharon Begley Copy Share Image
Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high. — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
I prefer 100 per cent cotton Ts. They are kinder to lumps and bumps than figure-hugging stretchy Lycra ones and feel nicer… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club. — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold,… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were… — Zutty Singleton Copy Share Image
My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
