African Cotton

Famous quotes containing the words african and/or cotton:

“If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.”
—White South African proverb.

“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)