#cotton

I have to have the cotton candy shipped in. ↗

— Meg White

#cotton #i #shipped

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#century #class #cotton #created #frame

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cotton #grown #israel #kind #new

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#cotton #cotton fields #fields #i #influenced

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

#came #cotton #cotton fields #day #days

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall. ↗

— Richard Petty

#came #car #cotton #daddy #i

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. ↗

— Beatrix Potter

#bed #cotton #every #eye #fells

Cotton is my life. ↗

— Billy Baldwin

#life #my life

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world. ↗

— Joseph Mitchell

#buyer #buyers #considered #cotton #dad

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

— Dorothy Malone

#cotton #dusty #get #horses #i