Jerry Reinsdorf

Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle class. I slept in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I wanted to be able to take care of my parents.

American Businessman

Rachael Stirling

My mum says I never had tantrums. I had elongated and very complicated tea parties in my cot, and I was sort of talking, I guess, quite young, and I would say, 'Oh, how lovely to see you, do come in!' I'd have these theatrical tea parties by myself with my imaginary friends.

English Actress

Sean Lock

We do need sculpture. People always say: 'Well, that sculpture could have paid for a cot in a maternity ward.' But if the world had been run on those lines, there'd only be about four books, and they'd be seed-drill manuals.

English Comedian

Pixie Lott

I'm not going to do anything that will damage my voice because my voice is my career and singing is my passion. I was singing in the cot and I'll still be singing when they're nailing down my coffin.

English Musician

Leila Janah

Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.

American Businesswoman

Frank Bruno

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

British Athlete

When I was younger I was really shy, but I'd always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing when I was in the cot. That probably didn't sound too good!

When I think about how I grew up sleeping on a cot in the hallway in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, it's been a great life. I can't complain.

Jason Chaffetz

From the time I roll out of the cot at 6 A.M. to the time I fall asleep after midnight, I get to do what I love nonstop.

American Politician

I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

The word 'cot' implies that the bed is designed with the safety of a child in mind.

Child Safety

'Cot' often refers to infant furniture, indicating it's for children too young to sleep in a regular bed.

Infant Furniture

When 'cot' is used, it suggests a domestic setting, usually within a home or family environment.

Home Context

A 'cot' in this sense is a temporary bed, and not meant for permanent or long-term use.

Temporary Sleep

Emphasizes the easy transport and setup of this type of 'cot', often used in camping or military contexts.

Portability

A cot typically takes up less space than a regular bed, making it practical for temporary situations.

Space Saving

A 'cot' in Scotland refers to a humble, rural dwelling, usually smaller and simpler than a modern house.

Rustic Dwelling

This use of 'cot' is specific to Scotland, echoing its distinct cultural and geographic identity.

Cultural Specificity

A 'cot' implies simplicity and often has connotations of a peaceful, pastoral lifestyle.

Simple Living

 they had three hots and a cot as one of my informants was fond of saying they had the time and resources to spare on seemingly less important things like aftershave and Cologne the moment I discovered this tin I was elated but I have to be entirely honest I wasn't just excited about what the tin might tell us

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 beautiful cat and she is a cat is just doesn't like when people push her boundaries and unfortunately some people have and some people have driven to coaster and unfortunately given her a bit of a hard time and that's why she can sometimes be a bit hissy she's also protective of her food and a cot and her

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 Now, how does the most powerful country in the world handle these displaced people? They cram them onto cots, put all your personal belongings in a plastic garbage bag, stick it underneath, and put you on the floor of an entire sports arena, or a gymnasium. So obviously there's a massive housing gap,

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 young activists organizing protests or rallying on the streets to voice their opinions they often clash with cots to call to the downfall of a dictator who had ruled for over 30 years they work day and night and often and anonymously perpetually in fear of being targeted

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 We moved into Glen's sod house. It's got an open door and then a hole in the roof. Dragged our tarp over here to kind of close up the roof hole a little bit to keep a bit more of the heat in. We'd set up cots that just barely fit in the open space in there.

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 And it happened in large part here because the expert got the statistics horribly wrong, in two different ways. So where did he get the one in 73 million number? He looked at some research, which said the chance of one cot death in a family

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 after they fed us and people who have nothing give everything it's just extraordinary they fed us and and they pulled some cots out for us to sleep outside in the desert and at one point my guide said they want to know if you

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 And the women, who I was so privileged to meet when there were three survivors, told these stories about lying in their cots in the refugee camps. They said they would try so hard to remember the fragments of the dance,

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 The child's daily contact with another human being is reduced to a few hurried minutes of feeding and changing, and otherwise their only stimulation is the ceiling, the walls or the bars of their cots.

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