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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater. — Lee Trevino Copy Share Image
[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I'm focusing on quality versus quantity - a nicer tee-shirt with organic cotton and buying just one or two instead of five… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down… — Sam Donaldson Copy Share Image
Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton… — Kevin Plank Copy Share Image
I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and… — Mary C. Jones Copy Share Image
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
He was tall, one of the tallest men she had ever seen. Dressed in jeans, boots and a cotton shirt. Thick black… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
In the morning, I use a Philosophy cleanser and Olay Regenerist Daily 3 Point Treatment Cream, which sinks in well and feels… — Saffron Aldridge Copy Share Image
I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up… — Johnny Bench Copy Share Image
I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a… — John Bright Copy Share Image