Cotton Quotes - Page 6

• My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables.

  Johnny Cash

  Father, Cutting, Land

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

  Andy Rooney

  Taken, Pills, Bottles

  "Great lines from "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney". www.cnn.com. November 5, 2011.

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• The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.

  Misha Collins

  Laughing, Cotton Candy, Sugar

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Laetitia Casta

  Cutting, Designer, Natural

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• I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore. That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Block, Simple, Dresses

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• The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

  Bill Mauldin

  Hurt, Children, Real

  Time magazine, July 21, 1961.

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• I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used to pick cotton, and I felt like even then I was somebody. I have the same feet, hands and heart like everyone else. I'm just also blessed with a good voice.

  Charley Pride

  Blessed, Heart, Hands

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• We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, willoften peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Taken, Sleep

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.346, e-artnow

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

  Albert Einstein

  Making Money, Laurels, Refuse

  "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck". The Saturday Evening Post, p. 17, October 26, 1929.

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• The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.

  Muddy Waters

  Party, Sleep, Night

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• 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.

  Haile Gerima

  People, Black, Sugar

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

  Nate Berkus

  Lying, Mean, Important

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, uk.askmen.com.

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• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  Val Kilmer

  Father, Mountain, Dollars

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• 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.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Southern, Mind

  "Professional Rebelling in 'Sweet Home Alabama,' I Coming Soon!" by Henry Rollins, digitalissue.laweekly.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Children, Growing Up

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

  Eartha Kitt

  Children, Son, Owners

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• There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were bricklayers and carpenters and cigar makers and plasterers. Some had little businesses of their own -- coal and wood and vegetable stores. Some worked on the cotton exchange and some were porters. They had to work at other trades 'cause there were so many musicians, so many bands. It was the most musical town in the country.

  Zutty Singleton

  Country, Jobs, New Orleans

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• Cotton candy. Like eating a cloud of diabetes.

  Dana Gould

  Clouds, Eating, Candy

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Aug 13, 2013

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• I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus.

  Patrick Fabian

  Thinking, Years, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

  Lena Horne

  Clubs, Schooling

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• I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].

  Lena Horne

  Brother, Water, Black

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• 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!

  Red Buttons

  Uncles, Dinner, Dean

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• When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton.

  Chael Sonnen

  Rats, Rooms, Walks

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• If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and cotton candy hair; if Los Angeles is this woman, then the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister. The teenybopper sister snaps bug stretchy pink bubbles over her tongue and checks her lipgloss in the rearview mirror, . . . Teeny plays the radio too loud and bites her nails, wondering if the glitter polish will poison her.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Heart, Mirrors, Hair

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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 the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.

  Ben Hecht

  Dream, Book, Knights

  "Tell Me the Truth About Love: Memories: 1953-1969". Book by Robert Ayres Carter, Xlibris Corporation, p. 151, 2008.

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