Cotton Mills

Famous quotes containing the words cotton and/or mills:

“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)

“It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing.”
—Irving Mills (1894–1985)