Bloody Nose Ridge

Famous quotes containing the words bloody, nose and/or ridge:

“Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

“In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the human subject. I hope it may prove successful.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)