Cotton Quote by Val Kilmer

My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children,…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I pulled cotton at 6 years old and worked on the peanut farm and paper route.

— Johnny Bench

My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in…

— Johnny Cash

I'm the son of a woman who grew up in Waycross, Georgia, picking cotton.

— Raphael Warnock

I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents…

— Willie Nelson

My grandmother, who picked cotton, and my mom, who picked cotton as a child - my grandmother had a work ethic. She had 13…

— Derrick Grayson

I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

— Parker Harris

My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in…

— Will Hobbs

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

— Joseph Mitchell

My grandmom worked as a maid for most of her life, and she worked in the tobacco and the cotton fields, whatever she could…

— Viola Davis

My dad, grew up poor in a copper-mining town in Arizona. The eleventh of 15 children, he learned to be resourceful and entrepreneurial at…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

— Robert B. Laughlin