Flag Quotes
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
Lapo Elkann -
If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.
Omar Torrijos Herrera -
That evening, I played piano for ten thousand barely-out-of-their-teens boys who filled the Kabul stadium. Boys with pimples and crew cuts in oversized military uniforms, holding on to their toy guns. Toy guns that killed. I played as if there was no tomorrow. Because for many of them there wouldn’t be, other than inside a coffin draped with a Soviet flag.
Ella Leya -
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
Larry Craig -
Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'
Gary Ackerman -
Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.
Adam Peaty
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We were broadly criticized by some, especially in the Senate, ... We did not back up. We did not wave the white flag. We did not retreat. ... I think this is a good bill.
Dennis Hastert -
I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.
Abby Wambach -
I don't consider myself a flag bearer in the parade, but I have never felt stronger about who I am.
Anzia Yezierska -
On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
Zebulon Pike -
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 -
Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.
Haruki Murakami
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If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.
Saina Nehwal -
I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.
Garth Brooks -
When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
Norman Thomas -
Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
Buzz Aldrin
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Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.
H. C. Bunner -
I have never seen anyone burn a flag. And if I did, it would take every ounce of restraint I had not to haul off and hit them.
Barack Obama -
Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.
Lester B. Pearson -
When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.
Judy Garland