Cotton Quotes

225 Cotton quotes by 198 unique authors

After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in a season. It… — LaVell Edwards
Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who… — Bernice L. McFadden
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and… — Paul Robeson
Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly… — Clark Gable
Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear. — Phil Gramm
I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy. — Nelly Furtado
See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody… — Junior Kimbrough
And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping… — Henry Steele Commager
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the… — Phil Robertson
I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice,… — Erik Satie
The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by… — Ramana Maharshi
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton… — Richard Hovey
Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the… — H.G. Wells
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on… — John Gierach
Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance. — Sylvia Plath
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the… — Mother Jones
That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, “Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one… — Paul Tudor Jones
Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there… — Jim Rogers
So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again… — Sonny Terry
It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that… — J. Maarten Troost
Let there be worse cotton and better men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat… — Unknown Author
For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor. — Charles Evers
Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush… — George Gershwin

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