Top 252 Anthem Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.
To sing the national anthem is wonderful, but it's far from the sign of a strong team and it is absolutely no indication of a lack of desire to fight.
I wrote my own anthem: it's called 'Mariah's Theme.' It's on the 'Rainbow' album from '99. Back in the day.
'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.
Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.
Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.
'I Think We're Alone Now' just makes people feel good. It became a teen anthem twice. How cool is that?
When you come out and know you're singing the national anthem, it gives you a buzz and gets you lifted for the game.
Every album I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.
Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress
Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.
I think we have to show respect for the nation and standing up for the anthem should not cause discomfort to citizens.
We made sure that Ian Gwyn Hughes from the media department gave a speech about the anthem. We translated it into English, what the meaning of it is and it is very powerful.
If someone says to me that 'Horizon' is an anti-feminist anthem, I have to tell them, 'No, that's not right.' But I'm not interested in unpicking my music for people. Everybody has different reference points.
I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.
Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.
If Anthem finds an audience in New York City, my hope would be to see the play transferred to a commercial theatre for an open-ended run.
Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.
If you asked me to make a Gaslight Anthem album on my own, I would say, 'No way, that's crazy.' I would never have been able to do that.
If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.
I'd like to write a big rock anthem again.
I just need to listen to Korn, and then
I might get the idea of how to do it.
I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans.
I feel in my heart it is right to continue to kneel during the national anthem, and I will do whatever I can to be part of the solution.
I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.
There was that feeling of standing on the podium and listening to someone else's national anthem that really sucked.
There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.
[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.
I think my patriotism is strong enough to not be offended when somebody takes a knee during the anthem. That's not something I take personally.
Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.
The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.
I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.
Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem.
I didn't really get sidetracked into being a singer. It was just something I started to do for fun in school, like singing the national anthem.
To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.
Now everybody has been doing the national anthem in their own style, but in 1968 I was the one that took the heat. It cut my career for quite a while.
It's crazy because 'Icy Girl' came when I was in a dark place, but I made it to motivate myself. It was kind of like my anthem for lifting up my spirits.
'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby.
I am nervous all the way through the national anthem and the first play. Once I get up and down the court a few times, it fades.
You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.
The Libertadores is sensational, but the Champions League... The first time I heard the anthem was a really special feeling. It's like being in a video game; it's living the dream of every child.
I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'
I've always been a fan of Five For Fighting's song 'Superman.' It's like an anthem, and I love it.
The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.
I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python.
'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.
The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.
When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.
The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.
Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.
As a very patriotic and passionate Scot, singing the anthem at a big football match means the world to me and I'm so lucky and so honoured that I get asked to do this.
When you're so close to winning and you have to stand on the podium and listen to someone else's anthem, it leaves just a little bit of that bittersweet feeling.
I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers to me like my own personal anthem.
You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.
The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.
I don't know if it's a legacy, but I love it. In my mind and other people's minds, they know I was the first to stylize the national anthem.
As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.
I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for.
