Cotton Quotes
225 quotes by 201 authors
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I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit…
— Jo Brand
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I am a huge fan of big cotton underpants; they're comfortable. I wear them every day.
— Gisele Bundchen
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around…
— Maya Angelou
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I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon…
— Helen Keller
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Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money and a little bit of…
— Jimmy Demaret
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I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was…
— Madam C. J. Walker
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One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and…
— Sylvia Plath
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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron…
— Hermann Minkowski
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Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.
— Frederick Sanger
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I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
— Dorothy Malone
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Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
— Yukio Mishima
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Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So…
— Ira Gershwin
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I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the…
— John Joseph Griffin
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Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the…
— Roger Bannister
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Let me make a point here, in case this isn't becoming extremely clear. My state has gun control laws. It did not keep Hennard from…
— Suzanna Hupp
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I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of…
— Oscar Romero
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went…
— Willie Nelson
Who Wrote These Cotton Quotes
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