“ They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre. ”
- Sir Thomas More- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 136
“ I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it. ”
- John Hunter- Copy
- 3.6K
“ We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. ”
- Golda Meir- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools. ”
- Henry Beston- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 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. ”
- Steven Jay Gould- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time… Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep. ”
- Muddy Waters- Copy
- 2K
“ Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far. ”
- Muddy Waters- Copy
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“ I remember thinkin' that I could probably make about $5 if I'd go out and pick cotton all day. And I could make $5 dollars bein' in this honky-tonk - the guy will give me $5 a night, and I'll be in here where it's warm in the winter and cool in the summertime. ”
- Buck Owens- Copy
- 2.6K
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