Blue Ridge District

Famous quotes containing the words blue, ridge and/or district:

    “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)

    “The light passes
    from ridge to ridge,
    from flower to flower.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)