"Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to……" — Rick Bragg

"Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe"

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25 Quotes by Rick Bragg

Rick Bragg has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide…
The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and…
The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the…
It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.
When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the…
I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing…
I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the…
Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad,…
And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and…
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

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More Garden Quotes

This quote is filed under Garden Quotes, one of 2,106 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. — Margaret Atwood
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is… — Alfred Austin
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. — Alfred Austin
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class… — Alfred Austin
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. — Alfred Austin
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most… — Teresa of Avila
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon

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