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 -
Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.
Adam Peaty -
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 -
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
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I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.
Abby Wambach -
On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
Zebulon Pike -
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 -
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 -
I don't consider myself a flag bearer in the parade, but I have never felt stronger about who I am.
Anzia Yezierska -
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.
Saina Nehwal
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When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
Buzz Aldrin -
I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.
Garth Brooks -
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 -
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 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
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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 -
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
Norman Thomas -
Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
Viggo Mortensen -
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