Cotton Quotes

225 Cotton quotes by 198 unique authors

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you.… — Johnny Cash
A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks… — Sharon Begley
You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy. — Heidi Klum
This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under… — Marilyn Manson
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn… — Timothy Thomas Fortune
Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the… — Loudon Wainwright III
Advising the average person to not concern herself with calories but instead to pay attention to hunger triggers and eating foods rick in nutrients--well, it's… — Chalene Johnson
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of… — Solomon Northup
Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday. — Luther Allison
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things,… — J D Salinger
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den… — Carl Perkins
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club. — Cab Calloway
To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who… — Rachel Naomi Remen
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage… — Sam Donaldson
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky… — Francis Parkman
The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world. — Joe Louis
I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is a… — Hal Porter
When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat… — Malcolm X
A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown... — Yohji Yamamoto
I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins. — Will Ferrell
Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool. — Peter Lawford
I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried. — Lesley Visser
If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on… — Charley Reese
I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood… — John Steinbeck
Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never… — Isabel Wilkerson

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