Cotton Fields Quotes
16 quotes by 12 authors
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I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was…
— Madam C. J. Walker
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I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went…
— Willie Nelson
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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
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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
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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
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My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
— Robert B. Laughlin
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I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
— Willie Nelson
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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
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There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was…
— Ben Hecht
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Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches, And soup, And peanut butter cookies, Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for…
— Andrea Gibson
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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
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I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the…
— Bob Livingston
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Black is not defined by the media: Tall T's, Saggy Pants, Icy Teeth or Style of Dance. Black is not defined by the media, it's…
— Kamanda Ndama
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When I was a little bitty baby. My mama would rock me in the cradle. In them old cotton fields back home.
— Lead Belly
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It was down in Louisiana. Just a mile from. Texarkana In them old cotton fields back home.
— Lead Belly
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It may sound a little funny but you didn't make very much money. In them old cotton fields back home.
— Lead Belly
Who Wrote These Cotton Fields Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 16 Cotton Fields Quotes as follows: