Top 1200 American Flag Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

My every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.

I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan.

The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.

Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

Before pride waves a white flag, it waves all other colors.

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

I'm the flag man. That's been happening to me since I've been in the league.

Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you're saying something.

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

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

There will be no white flag above my door, I'm in love and always will be

I feel very strongly about our flag and our country.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.

I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.

I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

Occasionally, I've been asked to do American roles, and once or twice I have, but I don't understand Americans. I don't have any real feeling for American culture.

A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with a heavy emphasis on psychological realism. If you limit yourself to a certain kind of American literary fiction, it's easy to forget about the different kinds of books that are being written. You can forget to be ambitious, both as a reader and a writer.

I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

We will rebuild our country with American workers, American iron, American aluminum, American steel. We will create millions of new jobs and make millions of American dreams come true. Our infrastructure will again be the best in the world. We used to have the greatest infrastructure anywhere in the world, and today, we are like a third-world country. We are literally like a third-world country. Our infrastructure will again be the best, and we will restore the pride in our communities, our nation.

I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're going to expect me to say that I would love to see more books by Native American authors and African-American authors and Arab-American authors. But when a teacher or librarian says this to publishers, it can have a profound effect.

Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!

When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.

I want to fight Bisping, whether it's for a belt or no belt, because he doesn't respect my country, my flag.

German women love American men. That's why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany - and never come back.

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for.

Mainstream media is the enemy... but now it's time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag.

All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.

Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff.

If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags.

I salute South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Lindsey Graham for their calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.

I love flying the flag for Irish designers like Joanne Hynes, Simone Rocha, Natalie B Coleman, Lennon Courtney and Helen Steele.

That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

American Medical Association [AMA] was strongly opposed to any scheme for group practice and to health insurance ... because they are un-American.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

It is un-American, it is unjust to target any group of folks whether they are African-American, Hispanic, poor or elderly when it comes to access to the vote.

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.