Top 34 John Cotton Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About John Cotton

#1. The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity drifting lazily above the cotton stalks.

John Grisham

#2. Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

John Cotton

#3. She is but a woman and many unsound and dangerous principles are held by her.

John Cotton

#4. I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do.

John Grisham

#5. The next day we were all shooting up.
"Jeez. Look at the size of the cotton he just threw in the spoon."
"Yea. What are you trying to prove?"
They had a good laugh at my expense.

Carl-John X. Veraja

#6. 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

#7. The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

John Cotton

#8. The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.

John Cheever

#9. Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

John Cotton

#10. Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. Whoa! If I'm gonna be a doorman, I gonna be the mos sabotagin doorman ever guarded a plantation. Ooo-wee. The cotton fiel be burn to the groun before I'm through."
Watch out, Jones. Don be getting yourself in no trouble."
Whoa!

John Kennedy Toole

#12. What I believe ... about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.

Alvin R. Dyer

#13. If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

John Cotton

#14. A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

John Cotton Dana

#15. I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it.

John Hunter

#16. Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

John Gunther

#17. In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

David Hasselhoff

#18. Does Raggedy Ann have a cotton crotch?

John Sandford

#19. To use it should be as natural ... as to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

John Cotton Dana

#20. Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement.

John Gierach

#21. I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.

John C. Calhoun

#22. What I really wanted more than anything was to put my boss on the floor and stand on his throat and watch him gag.

Scott Carrier

#23. The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

John Cotton Dana

#24. Fem-i-nist Fight Club / n. Your crew, your posse, your girl gang; your unconditionally helpful professional support system; your ride-or-die homies.

Jessica Bennett

#25. I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.

John Steinbeck

#26. Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

John Cotton

#27. At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

Chico Mendes

#28. If I could pick my own death, it would be on a roller coaster that jumps the tracks and careens into a packed crowd at a cotton candy stand at a state fair.

John Waters

#29. Islam is one of the fastest-growing faiths within America, and America needs to show that we're not anti-Islam. We are for, for people being free and having opportunity everywhere, that ... We did that in Bosnia, we did that in Kosovo, we did that in numerous other places in the world.

William J. Clinton