Quotes About Blue Ribbons

#1. She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue
The mountain, my lady
She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew,
Mount Eskel, my lady

Shannon Hale

#2. Progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

Barbra Streisand

#3. All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'

Brad Holland

#4. He is suffering from delusions of adequacy.

Walter Kerr

#5. You're the best man I've ever met, Patrick Ryan. Thank you for choosing me."
I kissed her hard. "I'll always choose you.

Linda Kage

#6. The early worm deserves the bird.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. They don't give blue ribbons to second-place beers.

Hosho McCreesh

#8. I know my breasts, small
as plums, would win no blue ribbons.
But in your hands they tremble and fill
with song like plump, white birds.

Cecilia Llompart

#9. Hornblower bowed to Lady This and Lady That, to Lord Somebody and to Sir John Somebody-else. Bold eyes and bare arms, exquisite clothes and blue Garter-ribbons, were all the impressions Hornblower received.

C.S. Forester

#10. Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

John Lahr

#11. Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

Izaak Walton

#12. As an adult, I know about life and death. I know that good people can die too soon and bad ones can live too long. I know that life's not fair, and you take the bitter with the sweet and balance it all as best you can.

Elsie Hillman-Gordon

#13. Sometimes, God gives you physical talent and takes away the brain.

Mike Ditka

#14. At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.

Kevin Mitnick

#15. I'll take my clothes off - whatever the job requires.

Tom Felton

#16. The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled. In my own experience I have often seen this rule verified.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.

Mark Twain

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

Loretta Lynn

#19. Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

Northrop Frye

#20. The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

Dennis Rodman

#21. If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago.

George H. Morris

#22. The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger ideas than when he began reading - that stimulates his thinking, stretches his mind, deepens his feelings. A good book sticks to your ribs.

Rebecca Caudill