#cotton

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone? ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#bill #birds #children #cotton #day

And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#j-r-r-tolkien #marriage #rosie-cotton #sam #the-lord-of-the-rings

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#came #club #cotton #could #down

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#does #half #joys #know #underwear

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#essence #i #sophisticated

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder. ↗

— Thomas Starr King

#california #came #cotton #down #flag

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cotton #grown #israel #kind #new

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. ↗

— Richard Petty

#came #car #cotton #daddy #i

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

— Dorothy Malone

#cotton #dusty #get #horses #i