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:
“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“For this your mother sweated in the cold,
For this you bled upon the bitter tree:
A yard of tinsel ribbon bought and sold;
A paper wreath; a day at home for me.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“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)