Flags Quotes - Page 11

• It was hard walking around the pitch... You do that when you win trophies. The fans were throwing flags on and that was hard to take, something which put a lump in your throat.

  Darren Fletcher

  Winning, Fans, Trophies

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• Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Swim, Woods

  Statement at Rochefort, July 1815.

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• IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
  She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion,
  Can never die, for Love forbids her death.
  Love has bent down in his old kindly fashion,
  And breathed upon her his immortal breath.
  On wounded soldiers, in their anguish lying,
  Her gentle spirit shall descend like rain.
  Where the white flag with the red cross is flying,
  There shall she dwell, the vanquisher of pain.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Fashion, Pain, Lying

  Joyce Kilmer (1911). “Summer of Love”

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• Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.

  Walt Disney

  Eye, White, Blue

  "The Quotable Walt Disney". Book by Disney Book Group, 2001.

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• That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of human liberty, never included and were never intended for us as a people. It is only a question of sheer accident that we happen to be fellow citizens today with the descendants of those who, through their advocacy, laid the foundation for human rights.

  Marcus Garvey

  Rights, Law, People

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.37, Ravenio Books

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• I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

  Gary Player

  Wish, Patents, Sideways

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• I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

  Walt Disney

  America, Tolerance, Democracy

  Radio address "Our American Culture" broadcast during an intermission of the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 1941.

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• What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead?
  No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled.
  Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread
  To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Fighting, Fire, What Matters

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

  Emily Dickinson

  Purple, Victory, Dying

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.24, Modern Library

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• Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

  Walt Disney

  Freedom, Believe, Men

  Walt Disney's radio address at the "Our American Culture" broadcast during an intermission of the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 1941.

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• The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown it, but in the rule that all who sail under the flag (not being enemies) are protected by the flag.

  Henry Clay

  Color, Safety, Gentleman

  "Memorable American Speeches, Volume II: Democracy and Nationality". Book collected and edited by John Vance Cheney, 1907-1910.

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• When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Rights, Blue

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1926). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• Impairment of fertility in both men and women because of hypothyroidism is firmly entrenched in medical literature...Miscarriage and fertility problems are a red flag for hypothyroidism.

  Mark Starr

  Miscarriage, Men, Pms

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• I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.

  Howard Dean

  Believe, America, Years

  "Dean: Country needs serious discussion about race". www.cnn.com. November 6, 2003.

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• Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Stars, Stripes, Civil War

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1863). “My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington”, p.4

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• I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.

  Winona LaDuke

  Patriotic, Land, People

  "Living on Earth: Helping the Prez, Greening the Rez". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.organicconsumers.org. January 16, 2009.

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• My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.

  Dorothy Parker

  Girl, Sweet, Strong

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.

  Billy Campbell

  Betrayal, Thinking, Practice

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• Naxal flag will soon fly in delhi

  George Fernandes

  Delhi

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• Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Son, Men, Class

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• As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, Slavery, Unions

  Said to Otto von Bismarck in June 1878. " Around the World with General Grant". Book by John Russell Young. Volume 7, p. 416, www.granthomepage.com. 1879.

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• All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Spring, Autumn

  Ray Bradbury (2002). “I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Salmon Publishing

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• I'm the most underrated, most hated, greatest of all time. I constantly have people who quit their jobs just to go on the internet and try to stop me at any and all costs. People flag my videos thousands of times.

  Riff Raff

  Jobs, People, Trying

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2012.

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• I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower!

  Coventry Patmore

  Flower, Moon, Water

  'The Spirit's Epochs' in 'The Angel in the House' (1854-62) bk. 1, canto 8, prelude 3 (1904 ed.)

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• London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.

  Henry James

  Feet, Red Flags, Cash

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.1036, e-artnow

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