Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.
Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every. . . Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.
Good advice is rarer than rubies.
You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.
To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something. . . is immune from change and shines out. . . in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.
Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.
His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.
Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.
There’s nothing left of me. I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance to sunlight.
A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby - take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.
A ruby-encrusted orb popped its top and helicopter blades unfolded. Leo was glad Buford the table wasn't here-he would've fallen in love.
This is a, uh, friendship ring right?” “Yeah, don’t worry. If I propose, you’ll know it. For one thing, I’ll be hyperventilating. ” A sly smile—surprisingly sexy—turned up his lips. “And it’ll be a ruby. ” “Rubies? No diamonds? Too expensive for the old writer’s salary, huh?” He made a disparaging grunt at that. “No, I just think diamonds are common, that’s all. If I get married, it’ll be because something uncommon is occurring. Besides, you wear a lot of red, right? I know how important it is for your accessories to match.
I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth.
It is impossible not to notice Ruby on Rails. It has had a huge effect both in and outside the Ruby community. . . Rails has become a standard to which even well-established tools are comparing themselves to.
If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.
I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades.
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
A friend cannot be owned That is plain to see Friendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby
I also have a pair of ruby red slippers from the 'Wizard of Oz' and Dorothy's gingham dress. . . and on and on. I saved as much as I could and still do, because people are still interested in it.