Top 228 Flags Quotes & Sayings

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?

You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.

You do not fly the flags of losers over the winner's country.

This is the thing I've learned, after a lot of couch time: There are always red flags. You need to look for those red flags along the way so you don't continue to make the same mistakes with another person.

Sometimes in tournaments I'll see Argentinians with Boca shirts and flags and that gives me a boost.

I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people, and I don't really consider myself to be a patriot in the sense that I say, 'okay, this is my nation,' I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.

Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.

All the negatives, the flags for the personal fouls and silly stuff after the play, that takes a toll. People don't want to be a part of that.

My particular rule of thumb is to allow disruptors to let their flags fly. If they want to stage a stunt, who cares?

I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags [gay pride flags] in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate , this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day.

Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one.

I think caring more about flags than people is an issue. I'd like to see that change.

My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

I chase checkered flags.

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

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the “Nation,” it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry.

On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.

Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.

We have way better nazi flags than THAT one.

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Our politics is about people not flags.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.

The fields are snowbound no longer; There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green. The snow has been caught up into the sky- So many white clouds-and the blue of the sky is cold. Now the sun walks in the forest, He touches the bows and stems with his golden fingers; They shiver, and wake from slumber. Over the barren branches he shakes his yellow curls. Yet is the forest full of the sound of tears.... A wind dances over the fields. Shrill and clear the sound of her waking laughter, Yet the little blue lakes tremble And the flags of tenderest green bend and quiver.

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the officers are angry, it means that the men are weary.

Now, that doesn't mean that individuals can't have Confederate flags on their property. They have the right to do that. But again, it represents something that is not unifying.

I'm excited for the audiences to hear the title track, 'Cheers to the Fall,' plus 'Red Flags' and 'Rearview.'

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.

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

Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.

Sometimes at my performances, I see Peruvian flags in the audience. I've never seen, when an Italian sings, people with Italian flags. But with Peru, it's different: because there are not many famous people, they really celebrate the ones they have.

I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around.

I'm from Anderson, S.C., but I grew up in the South. So I know what it is to ride to school and have Confederate flags flying from trucks in front of me and behind me, to see a parking lot full of people with Confederate flags and know what that means. I've been stopped by police for no reason.

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

People turn up at my shows with black hearts on their knuckles, waving their hands in the air like flags.

I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower!

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

When you want to fall in love, you ignore red flags in the optimistic hope that it does work out.

We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

Costumes are all about identifying which force in a conflict you're on. That's where banners and flags came from - so people rushing into battle knew who to follow and who was on their side.

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. "The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.