Best 68 quotes in «cotton quotes» category

A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples,throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

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.

a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.

A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.

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

Cotton candy. Like eating a cloud of diabetes.

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.

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!

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

GMOs are found in nearly 80% of processed food in the United States. Currently, up to 92% of U.S. corn is consumed what are you eating GMO with zoe lister-jonesgenetically engineered, as are 94% of soybeans and 94% of cotton. In short, they are everywhere.

Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

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?

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.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

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.

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

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

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

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

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

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

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.

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

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

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.

Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair.

Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm.

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.

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

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.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

Senator [Tom Cotton] got a ton of blowback. He became the star of fake missing person`s signs, encouraging folks to call if they saw him and also to call him and ask why he had been missing while his constituents were looking for him.

Senator [Tom] Cotton and his fellow lawmakers are back in D.C. and Republicans are split, they are divided about what to do with the repeal to feel Affordable Care Act. That`s topic that Senator Cotton was really berated for at that town hall event that almost did not happen.

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

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.

That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.

There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

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.