The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks have told us, it is a living past, living for a reason. The past is a part of the present, it is a comfort, a guide, a lesson.
Claire coaxed free another loop of cloth. The slow side of cotton against cotton matched the soft tenor or her voice. 'I have lots of talents Mr. Ryland. Listening is only one of them.
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields,...
My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting ...
In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
I have to have the cotton candy shipped in.
it ain't as hard as picking cotton
I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.
A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.
It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We h...
Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.
Joe Turner: Raggedy Ann has cotton tits.
Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.
Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.
I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.
Rhett Butler: Why, all we have is cotton and slaves and arrogance.
Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to beco...
Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.
