Cotton Quotes

225 Cotton quotes by 198 unique authors

Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,… — Henry David Thoreau
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf,… — Carl Sandburg
If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot… — Sivananda
That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot… — Buck Owens
I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up… — Tamara Mellon
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found… — Ayn Rand
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but… — Richard Petty
Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea. — Jethro Tull
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola... — Mark Pryor
He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. — William Makepeace Thackeray
But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies. — Chris LeDoux
Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but… — Will Rogers
The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of… — Robert E. Howard
So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's… — Will Rogers
Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair. — Elvis Presley
Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things. — Saul Bellow
I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets. — Woody Harrelson
Everything I do, I try to think, 'Okay, what are the ramifications?' Like, with the clothes I wear, I prefer if it's grown organically, because… — Woody Harrelson
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. — Jimi Hendrix
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. — Harry Houdini
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled… — Harriet Ann Jacobs

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