Cotton Quotes

225 Cotton quotes by 198 unique authors

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. — Wyclef Jean
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family… — Val Kilmer
In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. — Eartha Kitt
My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields. — Robert B. Laughlin
It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should… — Malcolm X
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. — Golda Meir
I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if… — Issey Miyake
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. — Willie Nelson
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along… — Rick Perry
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells… — Beatrix Potter
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in… — Robert Redford
I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day. — Martha Stewart
I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater. — Lee Trevino
Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more… — Robin Williams
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of… — A. N. Wilson
Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked… — Regina Brett
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived… — Stephen Jay Gould
Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We… — John Cheever
Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. — Alice Walker
When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes. Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a… — Jen Lancaster
Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,… — Anais Nin
Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two… — Ambrose Bierce
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of… — Virginia Woolf
Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with… — Audrey Niffenegger
If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and… — Francesca Lia Block

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