Cotton Quotes

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.

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 until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

People who follow their religion to the letter of the law are just silly. I mean, I want to tell Hasidic Jews I promise you, God will not mind if you wear a nice cotton blend in the summer.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

Cotton candy is the perfect snack for when I'm in the mood to eat dry, scratchy fabric.

My summer time tip is to wear shorts and light shirts; everything in summery fabrics such as linen and cotton. And don't think about work.

I am a huge fan of big cotton underpants; they're comfortable. I wear them every day.

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

Her bra was cotton and white and, bless its little frickin´ heart, had a front clasp.

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

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 Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.

African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.

Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

I did [picking cotton] from - until I was 18 years old, that is. Then I picked the guitar, and I've been picking it since.

I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials.

I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

Seth was a wonderful kisser. He gave the kind of kisses that melted into your mouth and filled you with sweetness. They were like cotton candy.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

I quite enjoy a high-waisted cotton panty.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.

Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."