Ribbons Quotes

• A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Fighting

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• Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart.

  Flavia Cacace

  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

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• I get all tangled up in your ribbons.

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

  Tangled

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• Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

  Vanna Bonta

  Strings

  "Vanna Bonta Has Holiday Gift Advice". waleg.com. December 16, 2006.

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• True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

  Oriana Fallaci

  True Power, Voice, Long

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• The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Good Morning, Sweet, Good Day

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.222, Bantam

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• Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.

  Anne Lamott

  Air, Grace, Mountain

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.23, Penguin

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• The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!

  Dr. Seuss

  Christmas, Tag, Trimming

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts.
  Open your heart,
  Untie the ribbons,
  and enjoy the contents!
  Were earth a thousand times as fair
  Beset with gold and jewels rare
  She yet were far too poor to be
  A narrow cradle,
  Lord, for Thee.

  Martin Luther

  Christmas, Heart, Holiday

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• The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Hours, Ends, I Can

  Brenna Yovanoff (2013). “Paper Valentine”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

  Billy Carter

  Real, Beer, Boys

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• I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.

  Jeff Buckley

  Lying, Hair, Black

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• I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!

  Emily Dickinson

  Squirrels, Rose, News

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

  Orson Welles

  Dream, Cinema, Boundaries

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• And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

  Dr. Seuss

  Christmas, Holiday, Mean

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and the outlying regions of the spirit. The depths hold no interest for me; I leave them to others, for they are shallow, commonplace. What is there, then, at the outer most edge? Nothing, perhaps, save a few ribbons, dangling down into the void.

  Yukio Mishima

  Depth, Body, Void

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• ...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicide, Self Harm, Broken

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

  Alfred Noyes

  Moon, Doors, Wind

  "The Highwayman" l. 3 (1907)

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• On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.

  J. K. Rowling

  Rivers, Landscape, Green

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• Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Risk, Dies

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• Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

  George Orwell

  Liberty

  "Complete novels of George Orwell".

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• You know . . . a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Stars, Hate, School

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

  Charles Dickens

  Blood, Sea, Sky

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.148

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• The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

  Howard Dean

  White, House, Effort

  "Democrats lambast Bush speech" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2004.

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• I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

  Loretta Lynn

  Eye, Blue, States

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, Vintage

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