Top 1200 Flag Waving Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans anymore.

I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.

If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.

Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.

I am a big believer in letting your own personal freak flag fly.

I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.

That's really how I ended up making the first flag - I was the guy who could sew it.

The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag

We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.

We must make sure that when someone sees the Blue Flag, she or he can say, 'I am protected.'

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

The honour of carrying the Canadian flag... brings with it a sense of duty, privilege, and above all, great pride.

He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.

When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag

If you played basketball growing up, you learn the importance of follow-through when you shoot: forming the gooseneck, waving good-bye to the ball, reaching into the far off hoop like it's a cookie jar - think Michael Jordan's last shot as a Bull.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don't come out with a great presentation, you're dead. That's a big red flag.

Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.

I hear they had our flag on their dressing room floor. I wonder if they'd like us to sign it?

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.

I would never bring a flag on the summit. If somebody is climbing for a country he is not normal, he is sick.

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.

You wouldn't replace your carpet at home if you still had a hole in the roof...We're talking about any time you start waving a carrot such as American citizenship without securing the borders, that number [of undocumented immigrants] that we have today I believe will double or triple.

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick.

The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound, Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam, Our arms are waving, our lips are apart.

When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you.

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

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

Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.

Everyone has a freak flag inside them. Whether they're brave enough to show it is another matter.

In 1996, a Republican governor in South Carolina tried to take the flag down. He was voted out.

People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it's a safe place where I can be myself.

Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

America is the only country in the world where you can burn the flag but can't tear the tag off the mattress.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.

When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?

I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.

Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.

People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.

Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.

To be on the world stage carrying our flag and representing the U.S. Paralympic Team is a huge honor.

At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.

See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.