Ribbon Quotations

It's the same information the Blue Ribbon Committee has worked off of and the players' association has, everybody has. It's very disappointing and just plain wrong. It's one thing to be wrong and it's another thing to know when you do it that you're wrong and you just go ahead and do it anyway. I find that hard to believe.

The ribbon symbolizes that we want dignity and justice for the immigrant community.

At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier.

There's something about being able to touch it, hold it, display it, re-read it and tie it up with ribbon and save it.

A blue ribbon commission, by its very nature, is temporary, intended to focus attention on an issue. This is a long-term problem, and I felt we needed a long-term response.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything.

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

The valley lay like a ribbon thrown into the midst of the encompassing hills. The grass which grew there was soft and fine and abundant; the trees which sprang from its dark, rich mould were tall and great of girth. A bright stream flashed through it, and the sunshine fell warm upon the grass and changed the tassels of the maize into golden plumes.