Ribs Quotes

• When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

  Nora Roberts

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• Love is stealthy hiding under ribs.

  Veda Hille

  Love, Love Is, Hiding

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• Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hurt, Broken, Looks

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• The fact is that woman was taken from a rib.

  Pope Francis

  Taken, Facts, Wince

  "Pope Francis jokes 'woman was from a rib' as he avoids vow to reform church". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2014.

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• The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Wings, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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  I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

  Ray Charles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

  Nicolas Cage

  Doctors, Eight, Blood

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• In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Morning, Sleep

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

  Robert Herrick

  Home, House, Soul

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.

  Bridget Hall

  Dream, Style, Comfort

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• Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

  Andrea Gibson

  Keys, Piano, Sheets

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.37, SCB Distributors

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• I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.

  Julia Barr

  Girl, Husband, Pushing It

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• In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.

  Aravind Adiga

  Work Out, India, Problem

  "Roars of anger". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2008.

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• I was born with music inside me

  Ray Charles

  Musical Life, Inspirational Music, Musician

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Jobs, Heart, Men

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.2783, Penguin

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• I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

  Richard Marx

  Gone, Realizing, Stage

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• Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Father, Book

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1998). “Aurora Leigh”, p.103, OUP Oxford

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• Ive broken my nose, Ive broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

  Keith Emerson

  Names, America, Broken

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• Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

  William Cobbett

  United States, Body, Canada

  William Cobbett (1933). “The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham”

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• I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.

  William Goldman

  Strong, Morning, Prayer

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, www.cnn.com. 1973.

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• never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs

  Nizar Qabbani

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Located two ribs below the heart, it is called hate.

  Ibi Kaslik

  Hate, Heart, Two

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• Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!

  Heloise

  Eye, Cutting, Cooking

  Heloise (1963). “Heloise's Kitchen Hints”

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• In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Husband, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.192, Da Capo Press

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• When Adam found his rib was gone
  He cursed and sighed and cried and swore
  And looked with cold resentment on
  The creature God has used it for.

  John Hollander

  Gone, Resentment, Cold

  John Hollander (1978). “Spectral emanations: new and selected poems”

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