Blue Ribbon Award

Blue Ribbon Award can refer to:

  • Blue Ribbon Award (railway), an annual award presented by the Japan Railfan Club
  • Blue Ribbon Awards, annual Japanese film awards
  • Blue Ribbon Award of Excellence in Education, awarded by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program

Famous quotes containing the words blue, ribbon and/or award:

    “The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...”
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “I’ll tell you how the Sun rose--
    A Ribbon at a time--”
    —Emily Dickinson (1831–1886)

    “The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)