Cotton Quote by Michael Lee West

“We'll go way down south where the cotton blossoms blow.”

— Betty Smith

“So that I might face my past, I dug these words from the richest southern soil and held them in my hands like seeds…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

“I scuff the toe of my boot through the dirt, uncovering pine needles and half-rotted leaves shed by the cottonwood looming over me. My…

— Rae Carson

“But here in my hometown, history was like a fine dust that settled out on everything. There was nothing to counter it. The culture…

— Christina Carson

“Among other embarrassments, at the time of which I now write, was the fact that the government wanted to get out all the cotton…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin’s real fresh and original.”

— Tim O'Brien

“Rake had been amazed by hos much he missed the South while at war. Even the crushing heat. Even the sharp pain of a…

— Thomas Mullen

“In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes.”

— Robert St. John

“Sin spreads misery around it only when there is ground ready for the bad seed.”

— Hesba Stretton

“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.”

— Michael Pollan

“I loved the landscape, the heat, the unhurried days, the fragrant and languorous nights. But there was something else, too; a sense of belonging…

— Marie Jakober

“The belief that a man who works hard can erase all his sins runs deep in the folds of my family, and, I suspect,…

— John T. Price