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Cotton Quotes: Industry, Metaphor, and Culture

Lines about cotton, industry, and culture

These cotton quotes trace the fabric's role in industrial history, from Manchester's textile trade to a softer metaphor about being wrapped in cotton batting rather than harsh Business dealings.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Business
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Nov 07, 2020

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

Quotes by Timothy Noah

Iron
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Nov 07, 2020

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

Quotes by Steven Knight

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

Quotes by Lesley Visser

Say
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Nov 07, 2020

I knew I had arrived when taxi drivers would say, 'You're that twit on the Billy Cotton Show, aren't you?'

Quotes by Jeremy Lloyd

Nov 07, 2020

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

Quotes by Eartha Kitt

Nature
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Nov 07, 2020

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

Quotes by B. B. King

Other lines take cotton in a more personal direction, recalling an emotional moment sitting Down at the Cotton Bowl in tears, or being recognized from an old TV variety show.

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