Quotes and Sayings about Flags
"Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared."
- William Jennings Bryan
(Related: Flags, Weight)
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
- Arthur C. Clarke
(Related: Fact, Flags)
"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."
- William Congreve
(Related: Despair, Flags, Invention, Study)
"It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here."
- Carson Daly
"Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill."
- Richard H. Davis
(Related: Flags, Flying, Houses, Man, Sheep)
"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats."
- Howard Dean
(Related: Democrats, Flags, Want)
"There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people."
- George Galloway
(Related: Patriotism, People, Flags)
"I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me."
- H. P. Lovecraft
(Related: Work, Fear, Enthusiasm, Flags)
"I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that."
- Aaron McGruder
(Related: Flags, News, Want)
"I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11."
- Adam Michnik
(Related: War, Work, Countries, Day, Flags, Iraq, Mourning)
"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Control, American, Anarchy, Danger, Flags, Revolution, Poor)
"Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place."
- Zebulon Pike
(Related: Flags, states, United)
"Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever."
- Yitzhak Shamir
(Related: Flags, Israel, Will)
"The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back."
- Lee Westwood
(Related: Love, Being, Open)
"Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief."
- Richard Widmark
(Related: Car, Work, Flags)