Cotton Quotes

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  I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Guitar, Wish, Fields

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• A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Light, Stay Cool

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

  Henry Beston

  Summer, Country, Fall

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• In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

  Eartha Kitt

  Essence, Sophisticated

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• I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

  Kevin Hart

  White, T Shirt, Shirts

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• I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

  Issey Miyake

  Fabric, Care, Cold

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• We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

  Golda Meir

  Humorous, Israel, Victory

  Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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• I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Peace, Interesting, People

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

  Joe Louis

  Champion, Heavyweights, Progress

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

  Eli Whitney

  Gin

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• I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

  Anais Nin

  Sleep, Clouds, Feet

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• Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  Cab Calloway

  Music, Clubs, Jazz

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• When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

  Wyclef Jean

  Block, Mind, Rhyming

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

  Willie Nelson

  Singing, Fields, Cotton Fields

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• I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.

  Woody Harrelson

  Swimming, Clothes, Trying

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• In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

  Mother Jones

  Song, Children, Night

  Jones (Mother), Philip Sheldon Foner (1983). “Mother Jones speaks: collected writings and speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

  Carl Perkins

  Dream, Gold, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Home, Wheat Fields, Childhood

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• I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

  Dorothy Malone

  Horse, Grandchildren, Gardening

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

  Sam Donaldson

  Boys, Agriculture, Typical

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• The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Men, White Man, Long

  Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster

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• Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

  Richard Petty

  Wall, Car, Daddy

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

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Sweat, Mouths

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• Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

  Francis Parkman

  Clouds, Light, Air

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.29, VM eBooks

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• After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in a season. It was just a great experience and I can't say enough about it. . . . People don't know how difficult it is to get up for 15 games.

  LaVell Edwards

  Team, Winning, Games

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