Ribbons Quotes

A hippie was sort of the unwashed, unkempt kid. A freak was someone who put a lot of care and intention into their appearance, wanting to stand out instead of blend in. I was a combination flower child-freak, because the former was all about love and sharing and adoring each other and having flowers in your hair, literally, and lace and feathers and all that. I never considered myself a hippie. She`d be wearing one of those Indian madras-type skirts with her hair split down the middle, no makeup, sandals, braless - of course, we were all braless. I would have on an old vintage lace tablecloth with ribbons woven through it, feathers in my hair, loads of makeup, sequins stuck all over my face, and spike heels."

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.

I can`t judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.

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

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

We Don`t Need Yellow Ribbons, We Need Help, We Need Jobs

The twins are now 11 and the little one is 5. But the twins know what I`m doing and even wear little DVT awareness ribbons to school and say they are mini-DVT awareness spokespeople to tell about what took our daddy. So I think it`s been a healing thing for them to reach others and do something with all of this grief,

One memory that just really stood out in my mind was our first home basketball game. She had some time before the game started. Each one of the girls came up to her, and she asked them how they wanted their hair done. They sat in front of her and she did their hair in blue and yellow ribbons.