Cotton Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Cotton.
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“It beats picking cotton and waiting to be forgotten.”
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“Wikipedia: Cotton”
“You dare not make war upon cotton! No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is king.”
“I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about it. It is wearing me out. What can I do?”
“Aren't the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton. I could just lie here all day and watch them drift by.”
“Over money and religion there's more blood to spill. The wounds of slaves in cotton fields that never heal, what's the deal?”
“All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.”
“...cooperative effort among nations, can be fortified, not by weapons of war but by wheat and by cotton, by milk and by wool, by meat and timber and rice.”
“Information about cotton are mentioned in a series of famous Indian poems written in 600 BC called the Rigveda — one of the most sacred texts of Hinduism.”
“Cotton is infected by a range of diseases which can affect the quality of the fibre and seed, as well as the yield and cost of production of the cotton crop.”
“It is estimated that cotton is cultivated on approximately 2.4% of the World’s arable land.”
“De-linted cotton seed (ie. seed with no lint or linters) is processed into oil, meal and hulls.”
“I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart.”
“Summer time, an' the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin', an' the cotton is high.
Oh, yo' daddy's rich an' yo' ma is good-lookin',
So hush, little baby, don't yo' cry.”
“I only had to recall the previous winter in the cabin, when we had only cotton blankets, and had rags on top of us.”
“The world produces around 25 million tonnes of cotton every year. Six countries - China, Brazil, India, Pakistan, the USA and Uzbekistan - account for more than 80% of total production.”
“I often spin to replenish my energy. And I am not alone. Women and men all over North America sit daily at their wheels, spending time, as Gandhi would have wished, in quiet contemplation.”
“You might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a manufacturing population.”