Sharecropper Quotes

#1. The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

Ernest Gaines

#2. Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

B. Wayne Hughes

#3. What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

Eero Saarinen

#4. I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#5. If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

Mac Miller

#6. We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

Seth Shostak

#7. 1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.
1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.

Larry Niven

#8. You are not promised anything beyond THIS MOMENT!

Jairek Robbins