(60 quotes found)
“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
“I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.”
Lee Trevino
“A blade of grass is light, cotton is lighter, the beggar is infinitely lighter still. Why then does not the wind carry him away? Because it fears that he may ask alms of him.”
Chanakya
“It beats picking cotton”
Proverb
“The last thing I want to do is be mollycoddled or be wrapped up in cotton wool, because if I was to join the Army, I would want to go where my men went, and I'd want to do what they did. I would not want to be kept back for being precious, or whatever - that's the last thing I would want.”
Prince William
“We've cut too much sugar cane, we've picked too much cotton, we've died too young, ... Don't give up now. It's dark, I know. But morning is coming.”
Jesse Jackson
“But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.”
Chris LeDoux
“We've combined soy, bamboo, hemp and cotton and blended it in Lycra so basically it's got a great feel. Organic clothing always felt so bad and now it just feels so good.”
Chip Wilson
“Coming into Alabama, that's what you dream of. Your last game, in the Cotton Bowl, you got two minutes to go score.”
Brodie Croyle
“We were all wondering where all the cotton came from.”
Bill Robertson
