Quotes About Picking Cotton

#1. There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#2. Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.

LaTanya Richardson

#3. People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world.
It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts.

Jimmy Carter

#4. When I'm rhyming it's all in my head ... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

Wyclef Jean

#5. I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

Johnny Gimble

#6. it ain't as hard as picking cotton

Wynton Marsalis

#7. My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.

Phil Everly

#8. If its about the existence of god, you may as well ask me, what the square root of an elephant is?

Steve Merrick

#9. What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.

Robert Wilson

#10. It is the literal, unvarnished truth, that the crack of the lash, and the shrieking of the slaves, can be heard from dark till bed time, on Epps' plantation, any day almost during the entire period of the cotton-picking season.

Solomon Northup

#11. I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

Alan Cumming

#12. Whoa." Cayman threw up his hands. "Simmer down, crouching demon, hidden Warden. He's fine.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#13. Shagga, cut off his manhood and feed it to the goats." Shagga hefted the huge double-bladed axe. "There are no goats, Halfman." "Make do.

George R R Martin

#14. It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Maurice Chevalier

#15. How do we awaken to this true Self? By going within and putting our attention on the silent presence in our heart - the silent witness that is detached from sensory experience and at the same time enjoys that experience in complete freedom.

Deepak Chopra

#16. In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

Benjamin Carson

#17. Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. I jerk around and see Sister Dora, a portly woman who's the head cook in the kitchen, staring daggers at me. This is nothing new. She stares daggers at everyone who walks through the lunch line holding a tray, as though our needing sustenance is a personal affront.

Pittacus Lore

#19. Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Francesco Guicciardini

#20. Who knows anybody?

Derek Kirk Kim