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Quotes About Ribbon

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
~ Edmund Waller
My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.
~ Elizabeth Berg
The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
~ Dennis Rodman
A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next to Anubis, and my first thought was, My god, he's got a magic roll of toilet paper.
~ Rick Riordan
Somehow, I have the feeling my voice may come back one day if I study the letters imprinted on the used ribbon.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why!
~ Jessica Brown Findlay
I woan let you go back to that boy--not until you give me one bec doux . A sweet kiss. Then he reached forward, unlacing the ribbon from my hair. What are you doing? I murmured. Souvenir. He put it in his pocket, and for some reason that struck me as the sexiest thing I'd ever seen.
~ Kresley Cole
The lightest touch might keep Mary there, rooted in this frozen alley. Instead, she stretched out her hand to the worn red ribbon in Doll's wig. Was it the same one, she wondered, the first one, the ribbon the child Mary had set her eyes and heart on at the Seven Dials, three long years ago?
~ Emma Donoghue
When she pulled the ribbon out of her mattress, at first light the next morning, it was brown.
~ Emma Donoghue
They say it looked like a big flower had sprung in the place where I shot myself dead, just like those ribbon pigtails clung onto either side of your head.
~ Amber Tamblyn
When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint 'blue ribbon' commissions.
~ Christopher Buckley
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
~ Robert Benchley
I am wearing an old yellow sundress of Celia's, and I have tied my hair back with green ribbon. I think I look real nice. And all they see is the cake.
~ Jenny Han
Fate had struck while she sat unsuspecting, had struck somewhere on one of the many curves of this cursed course. The seconds became leaden, the minutes hours. The carrousel on the white ribbon existed now only like a bad dream; her chest became a black cavity, hollowed out with waiting.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly.
~ Erik Larson
A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly. And
~ Erik Larson
a new beer did well, winning the exposition's top beer award. Forever afterward, its brewer called it Pabst Blue Ribbon.
~ Erik Larson
In Geryon's autobiography this page has a photograph of some red rabbit giggle tied with a white ribbon. He has titled it "Jealous of My Little Sensations.
~ Anne Carson
What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.
~ Seth Shostak
Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.
~ Matt Czuchry
early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.
~ Alice Hoffman
So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, "One thing there's no getting by -- I've been a wicked girl," said I; But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lucy Locket lost her pocket,Kitty Fisher found it;There was not a penny in it,But a ribbon round it.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes