Ridge Quotes

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

'Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.