Quotes by : Rick Bragg

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.....

In water so fine, a few minutes of bad memory all but disappear downstream, washed away by ten thousand....

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries....

I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged....

When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because....

The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism....

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears....

It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are....

It is true that almost everyone in the foothills farmed and hunted, so there were no breadlines, no men....

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper....