Ribbons Quotes - Page 6

• In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser or a secretary. I couldn't stomach it. Later on, when I fell in love with my husband and had children, that's when my mother's earthiness or sense of femaleness kicked in.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There is one school of thought that says Mayors should cut ribbons, be funny and be a buffoon. The other school of thought is that we can do more. Scotland is getting more powers. Wales is getting more powers. Greater Manchester. London needs more powers.

  Sadiq Khan

  School, Cutting, Scotland

  Source: www.alastaircampbell.org

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• When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Thinking, Ties, May

  Source: www.choprafoundation.org

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• Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

  Don Marquis

  Cat, Zest, Sea

  1927 archy and mehitabel,'mehitabels extensive past'.

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• I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.

  Hank Stuever

  Grandma, Holiday, Thinking

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding that fire. Social networking, and the internet as a whole, seems to have simply landed in an extremely fertile place in an extremely fertile time in history, when we all have these narcissistic tendencies anyway - you can go further back into the self-esteem movement, and Dr. Spock, and the 'everybody gets a ribbon at the track meet' sort of thing, which preceded the internet - and then you drop the internet into the middle of this, and we've all gone haywire.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Self Esteem, Fire, Track

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• Sarah Palin is very pro-life of course, unless the life is that of an Iraqi civilian or a wolf running frantically from a roaring helicopter while being strafed with ribbons of automatic weapons fire.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Running, Fire, Pro Life

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• And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package, but then it's not your birthday that I know of so I'm under no obligation to give you a gift.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.8, Macmillan

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• John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Nuts, Yellow, Tough

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• The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fighting, Soldier, Fabric

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• I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...

  Tom Hanks

  Healing, Eye, Angel

  Tom Hanks' Academy Award Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1994.

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• The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

  Dustin Clare

  Thinking, Organization, White

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• I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

  Scott Walker

  Kids, Iran, Yellow

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled pine and the latticed frond and the seaweed ribbon—perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. … Their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. … They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Son, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.92, Gibbs Smith

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• Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Writing, Learning, Mean

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• The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.

  Ray LaHood

  Moving, Blue, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Philosophy, Real

  1975 Humboldt's Gift.

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• I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

  Edmond Rostand

  Cutting, Men, Ideas

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• He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.

  Darynda Jones

  Cake, Desire, Razors

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.149, Macmillan

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• The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.

  Matt Taibbi

  Phones, Games, Age

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.213, Spiegel & Grau

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• My eyes are bright, my hair has come loose from its ribbon, and Stella's scarf is waving around my neck. But that's not what I see when I look at the picture. I see three unlikely friends holding hands. And Ryan, Kenny, and Melanie are standing behind us, rapt. And in the sky above us, I see a miracle.

  Wendy Mass

  Eye, Hair, Hands

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• and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Car, Too Much

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• He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck

  Ilona Andrews

  Laughing, Faces, Necks

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.15, Penguin

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• No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

  Lynn Abbey

  Typewriters, Trying, Finals

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