Top 1200 Flag Waving Quotes & Sayings - Page 9
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag -if they do, they must be consequences -perhaps loss of citizenship or year in a jail.
Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.
The United States' flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is restored.
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.
But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.
In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!
Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!
The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.
I am glad to see the Confederate battle flag gone from a place of honor at the South Carolina state capitol.
I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.
Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.
I put the gold star up in the front window
beside the flag. Alterations is what I know
and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.
Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.
The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.
I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the characters on our muted TV, waving their hands and screaming and never saying a word out loud.
[Donald] Trump, he - you know, buy American, buy American, anti-free trade, and got big cheers. They're waving Russian flags, probably partly as a joke. But, still, the party has become an ethnic nationalist party.
Making sure that due process could not be abused is at the heart of any conservative solution to the supposed red flag laws.
We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.
You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.
Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. You can't just pull it out and wave it about when it's convenient.
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.
When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.
A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.
Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.
I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help.
(said at Stamford Bridge)
Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.
You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't nailed down? No offence, Svengal." Svengal shrugged. "None taken. It's a pretty accurate description of Erak on a raid, as a matter of fact.
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.
Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.
A moral stand by the sports industry is what finally settled the long, unfortunate debate over Mississippi's state flag.
I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.
Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.
I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!
It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.
When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.
I fell in love with scent when I was a small boy.
I was intrigued by how each bottle on my mother's dressing table
gave such a different scent-each like a genie waving its spell,
transporting us away from the mundane to worlds full of fantasy.
Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind is only on returning to camp.
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?
Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as one people under one God saluting one American flag.
If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.
[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.
I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.
There are so many - namely black and brown bodies - who have experienced a different America than what the mainstream American flag symbolizes.
It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.
