#cotton

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

— Dorothy Malone

#cotton #dusty #get #horses #i

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war. ↗

— John Bright

#any #aware #compared #contributor #cotton

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#club #cotton #free #open #segregation

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

— Lee Trevino

#enough #grinding #guts #i #knit

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. ↗

— Robin Williams

#bred #closest #closest thing #cook #cotton

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

#around #away #cotton #did #far

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#before #blues #called #cotton #done

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

#been #cotton #cotton fields #days #electric

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#another #balls #burned #burning #coals

They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#apostles #between #business #conceive #cotton