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

  Eartha Kitt

  Essence, Sophisticated

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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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• Let there be worse cotton and better men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Men, Better Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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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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• Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

  Charles Evers

  Hands, Mayors, Picks

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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 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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• Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  Cab Calloway

  Music, Clubs, Jazz

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• I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

  Eli Whitney

  Gin

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

  Ira Gershwin

  Song, Summertime, Easy

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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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• I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

  Kevin Hart

  White, T Shirt, Shirts

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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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Ignorance

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• With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  School, Thinking, Touching

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