Cotton Quotes

225 Cotton quotes by 198 unique authors

And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came… — J.R.R. Tolkien
All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste… — Jodi Picoult
Those East Coast rich kids are a different breed, on a fast track to nowhere. Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian in their niceness.… — Maria Semple
Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your… — David Levithan
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. — Thomas Carlyle
Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club. — Cab Calloway
Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a… — Johnny Cash
Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant… — Malcolm Cowley
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill… — Roger Bannister
Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the… — Kevin Plank
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A… — Willie Nelson
When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician,… — Alice Dreger
I prefer 100 per cent cotton Ts. They are kinder to lumps and bumps than figure-hugging stretchy Lycra ones and feel nicer against the skin.… — Twiggy
I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano. — Pinetop Perkins
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by… — Alex Shoumatoff
I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern. — Gerard Butler
I love soft-cotton white T-shirts. — Kevin Hart
I pulled cotton at 6 years old and worked on the peanut farm and paper route. — Johnny Bench
The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude,… — Timothy Noah
Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man. — Jose Andres Puerta
A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool. — Ashley Madekwe
My mum was very conscious about fashion, and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now,… — Domenico Dolce
I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete… — Kathryn Lasky
Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics. — Tadashi Yanai
I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer… — Brunello Cucinelli

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