Osamu Dazai
Novelist
"The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness"
Cotton quotes
Cotton
59 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jimi Hendrix
Musician, Guitarist
"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."
Robin Williams
Actor, Comedian
"Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string."
Dana Gould
Comedian
"Cotton candy. Like eating a cloud of diabetes."
Johnny Cash
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high."
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"Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?"
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"Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin."
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"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."
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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."
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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."
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"Let there be worse cotton and better men."
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"Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read"
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"I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern."
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