Cotton Plant Quotes

#1. As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The men who mine coal and fire furnaces and balance ledgers and turn lathes and pick cotton and heal the sick and plant corn - all serve as proudly, and as profitably, for America as the statesmen who draft treaties and the legislators who enact laws.

George Washington

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

Dorothy Malone

#4. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they

Harriet Jacobs

#5. Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.

Harriet Ann Jacobs