"This is a place where grandmothers hold babies……" — Rick Bragg
"This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven."
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25 Quotes by Rick Bragg
Rick Bragg has 25 quotes on this site.
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It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide…
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The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and…
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The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the…
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It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.
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When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the…
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I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing…
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I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the…
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Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad,…
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And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and…
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I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
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Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
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People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
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More Babies Quotes
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one of 838 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you…
— Dave Barry
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I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very…
— Mayim Bialik
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There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.
— Gisele Bundchen
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but…
— Louisa May Alcott
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My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more…
— Margaret Cho
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
— Deepak Chopra
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're…
— George Carlin
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the…
— Rajneesh
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"I call them april babies cause they fools"
— Lil Wayne
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I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
— Robert Orben
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