“Gifts have ribbons, not strings.”
Holiday advice from Bonta essay "Ribbons vs. Strings" adapted to Christmas audio Tale "It's the Gift That Counts" (Holiday Magic 2005 CD). Vanna Bonta Has Holiday Gift Advice http://www.waleg.com/celebrities/archives/006180.html WAlEG Celebrities; December 16, 2006
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Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice art… 1958–2014Related quotes
“Yee have many strings to your bowe.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Letter to Richard Watson Dixon (17 October 1881)
Letters, etc
“2942. It is good to have two Strings to one's Bow.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Cyprus Avenue
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)
“Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.”
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.”
Source: Dreamfever
“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?”
Source: Animal Farm
“Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse”
Of Poland, Red Ribbon on a White Horse, ch. 9 (1950)
“if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.”
Source: Lolita