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Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe — Rick Bragg

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week. — William Henry Bragg

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

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. — Billy Bragg

Now that the space race is over and I can't help but feel that we have all grown up too soon. — Billy Bragg

A man should not be cruel to things weaker than himself, — Rick Bragg

I don't know anything about wars. I don't think even the most erudite scholars do. I think you have to fight one, to know it. — Rick Bragg

Only low men, the lowest, tormented the weaker things in their control. — Rick Bragg

It wasn't that I had gotten it right ... but that I had gotten true. — Rick Bragg

Shakespeare shoved into bed together words that scarcely knew each other before, had never even been introduced. — Melvyn Bragg

One: Don't kill yourself.
Two: Don't kill each other.
Three: Try hard not to kill nobody else, but if you have to, better if it ain't fam'ly. — Rick Bragg

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered. — Melvyn Bragg

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. — Melvyn Bragg

On every pack leaned an M16, except Lori's. Her son was playing soldier with it in the bleachers. There was no clip in it, which was a good thing. — Rick Bragg

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands. — Billy Bragg

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right — Melvyn Bragg

If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it. — Billy Bragg

And although the world was just the same as it had always been as I travelled home on the Tube that evening, my view of it had been changed forever. — Billy Bragg

[A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom. — Billy Bragg

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats. — Rick Bragg

That's what I'm about
getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians. — Billy Bragg

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve. — Billy Bragg

The revoloution is just a T-shirt away. — Billy Bragg

West Virginia is among the nation's leaders in military service, in killed in action, in medals for valor. — Rick Bragg

There's something I want to say in this space, but it's an emptiness where there's usually a hug. - Colin Morton to Mary Lee Bragg, 1972 — David Eso

If one piddles correctly, time just goes away, without regret on the part of the piddler, or even any particular notice. — Rick Bragg

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in. — Billy Bragg

That is where a big part of the Old South is, on coffee tables in Greenwich Village. — Rick Bragg

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. — Billy Bragg

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride. — Billy Bragg

How do you not love a place where the faded beads from a parade six years before still hang in the branches of the live oak trees. — Rick Bragg

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants. — Rick Bragg

Mama just stepped back on the treadmill of worry and hopeless, and kept walking. — Rick Bragg

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background. — Rick Bragg

Baptists burn more slowly. — Billy Bragg

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone. — Billy Bragg

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all. — Billy Bragg

The unwritten rule of engagement had been If it looks hostile, shoot it. — Rick Bragg

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

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. — Billy Bragg

Stripes on their backs. The twentieth century — Rick Bragg

War what is it good for? It's good for business. — Billy Bragg

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do. — Rick Bragg

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

- Must I Paint You a Picture — Billy Bragg

Mature material. Where once he had hollered through — Rick Bragg

A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets. — Billy Bragg

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had. — Billy Bragg

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter. — Billy Bragg

Because the space race is over
And I can't help but feel that we've all grown up too soon.

- The Space Race Is Over — Billy Bragg

If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman — Billy Bragg

How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team? — Billy Bragg

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. — Rick Bragg

To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music. — Melvyn Bragg

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. — Rick Bragg

He was trapped in a haircut he no longer believed in.

- King James Version — Billy Bragg

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all. — Billy Bragg

I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo — Billy Bragg

The Internet took off in English and although there are now fifteen hundred languages on the Internet, seventy percent of it is still in English. — Melvyn Bragg

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers. — Billy Bragg

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground. — Billy Bragg

The revolution is just a T-shirt away.

- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward — Billy Bragg

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Henry Bragg — William Henry Bragg

For maybe the first time in my life, I had tried to do the safe thing, and it had blown up in my face. Never, ever again. — Rick Bragg

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country. — Billy Bragg

Light brings us the news of the Universe. — William Henry Bragg

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined. — Melvyn Bragg

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards. — Billy Bragg

They, especially, taught me that you can't go through life not liking people because they didn't have to work as hard or come as far as you did. — Rick Bragg

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

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience. — Billy Bragg

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. — Billy Bragg

Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea — Billy Bragg

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses. — Billy Bragg

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again. — Rick Bragg

If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth. — Billy Bragg

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. — Billy Bragg

The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work must be resisted for they never fit together again. — Billy Bragg

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. — Billy Bragg

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built. — Billy Bragg

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives. — Melvyn Bragg