Cotton Fields Quotes:

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

- Christopher Marlowe

source: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)

topic: Love, Life, Yield, Mountain Ranges, Mountains And Valleys

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

- Solomon Northup

source: Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.87, Ageless Reads

topic: Eye, Sight, Light, Expanse, Cotton Fields

I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground.

- Madam C. J. Walker

topic: Life Lesson, Hair, Kitchen, Cotton Fields, Black Motivational

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

topic: Guitar, Wish, Cotton, Electric Guitar, Cotton Fields

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

- Johnny Cash

topic: Mother, Art, Hands, Cotton Fields

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. ... I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to...I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. ... Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

- Willie Nelson

topic: Country, Song, Writing, Cotton Fields

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.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Peace, Interesting, People, Cotton Fields, Science Physics

Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, Gone from the earth to a better land I know, I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.

- Stephen Foster

source: Stephen Collins Foster (2010). “Stephen Foster & Co: Lyrics of America's First Great Popular Songs”

topic: Heart, Gay, Land, Cotton Fields

African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.

- Philip Freelon

topic: Beautiful, Creating, African American, Cotton Fields

Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

- Loudon Wainwright III

source: "Geoff Muldaur Takes Texas Sheiks On The Road". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 7, 2009.

topic: Hero, School, Boys, Cotton Fields

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.

- Johnny Cash

topic: Music, Use, Cotton, Cotton Fields

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dream, Gold, Looks, Dens, Dreams Came True

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

- Robert B. Laughlin

topic: Home, Childhood, Fatherhood, Childhood Home, Cotton Fields

When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.

- Bell Hooks

source: Source: nefac.net

topic: Men, Thinking, Southern, Migrant Workers, Closing Down

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind...

- Ben Hecht

source: "Tell Me the Truth About Love: Memories: 1953-1969". Book by Robert Ayres Carter, Xlibris Corporation, p. 151, 2008.

topic: Dream, Book, Land, Scarlett O Hara, Cotton Fields

Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches, And soup, And peanut butter cookies, Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil, But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!

- Andrea Gibson

topic: I Like You, Hey, Soup, Cotton Fields

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Block, Ghetto, Men, Women Right, Cotton Fields