Ridge Quotes
56 Ridge quotes by 47 unique authors
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Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to orange for financial…
— Jon Stewart
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As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was…
— Matt Gonzalez
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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all…
— William O. Douglas
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The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of…
— John Ruskin
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May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on…
— Edward Abbey
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a…
— Abraham Lincoln
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He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that…
— Halldór Laxness
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From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people…
— William Butler Yeats
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Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now,…
— Michael Shaara
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As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the thick, hard ridge grazing…
— Karen Marie Moning
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There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that…
— Isak Dinesen
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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.…
— C.S. Lewis
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A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a…
— Heinrich Heine
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And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that:…
— Ronald Reagan
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Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn…
— Sal Albanese
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When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot…
— Ian Frazier
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My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage.
— Rosecrans Baldwin
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When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college…
— Kenny Troutt
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I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.
— Roy Moore
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a…
— Abraham Lincoln
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That's how we live up on the ridge.
— Dierks Bentley
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When we get high up on the ridge.
— Dierks Bentley
Who Wrote These Ridge Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 56 Ridge Quotes, led by these top contributors: