Cotton Picking Minute Quotes & Sayings

The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now. — Henri Nouwen

If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment — Frank A. Clark

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open. — Jay Weatherill

He was slow and methodical in the way he handled her, as if they had all the time in the world for him to explore her body. As if she was a sculpture he'd bought and paid for, something that belonged to him, was his to touch as he pleased. — Stylo Fantome

We go on in her room, where we like to set. I get up in the big chair and she get up on me and smile, bounce a little. "Tell me bout the brown wrapping. And the present." She so excited, she squirming. She has to jump off my lap, squirm a little to get it out. Then she crawl back up.
That's her favorite story cause when I tell it, she get two presents. I take the brown wrapping from my Piggly Wiggly grocery bag and wrap up a little something, like piece a candy, inside. Then I use the white paper from my Cole's Drug Store bag and wrap another one just like it. She take it real serious, the unwrapping, letting me tell the story bout how it ain't the color a the wrapping that count, it's what we is inside. — Kathryn Stockett

As recently as fifty years ago my grandmother was picking cotton with bleeding fingers. I think about her all the time while I'm getting overpaid to sit at a computer, eat Chinese takeout, and think up things in my pajamas, The half century separating my fingers, which are moisturized with cucumber lotion and type eighty words per minute, and her bloody digits is an ordinary Land of Opportunity parable, and don't think I don't appreciate it. — Sarah Vowell

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort. — Al McGuire

And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich. — Rose Fyleman

[Donald] Trump is where the Republicans are, and if you're going to be a Republican leader you should be supportive of that. — Jeff Sessions

It is a ripper. I would be disappointed if it simply nuzzled them and showed its belly for a good rub. — Jeff Salyards

I am at a stage in my life where I want to only do thing that I love. I only want to do things that make me happy. Making money is important, but it's not my ultimate driver. — Monita Rajpal

Harvey out.
PS I have puny shoulders.
PPS And I'm okay with that.
PPPS I'm not really. — Laura Buzo