Age Quote by Willie Nelson

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the…

— Val Kilmer

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

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

— Raphael Warnock

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

— Johnny Bench

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 a working class family. People thought I might go work at a mill. My mom wanted me to learn how…

— Mark Cuban

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 learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household, and as a result, I…

— Jack Kingston

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to…

— Marcy Kaptur

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of…

— Chuck Knox

I remember, and I will never forget, one day - I was six years old and I was playing beside the road and this…

— Fannie Lou Hamer