Top 1200 National Anthem Quotes & Sayings

There was that feeling of standing on the podium and listening to someone else's national anthem that really sucked.

When I represent the Under-21s and sing the national anthem, there is no better feeling.

I got tired of seeing people rush through the national anthem so they could have their popcorn and get to the game. Nobody ever sang the anthem with soul. It was always done clinically and they always stuck to the original. I put feeling into it. I sang it in a soulful manner.

Bobby Orr was a star when they played the National Anthem in his first game.

Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.

A lot of people get upset by any protest - people taking a knee during the national anthem or raising a fist. As if we're being disrespectful. Or rude to the national anthem or to our soldiers, you know what I'm saying? It's deeper than that.

The thing that I really love to do, that I now only do in the shower, is to sing the national anthem.

I'm a part of major league rugby. We had a league meeting to decide what to do with anthem protests, and even though I personally agree with what they say they are protesting as inequality and judicial system and incarceration rates among minorities, we decided all should stand and respect every national anthem.

And I respect the anthem. I would never kneel for it. We all come from different walks of life and think differently about the anthem and the flag and what that means.

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.

When you come out and know you're singing the national anthem, it gives you a buzz and gets you lifted for the game.

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

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.

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.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

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.

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 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.

We've been doing work outside of the anthem since the beginning. Before the anthem even started, players were involved in these types of social justice issues. The anthem protests or demonstrations just brought eyes and attention to it.

If you are not taught Tagore in school, your association is limited to reciting the National Anthem.

I've stood for the national anthem ever since grade school. It's a patriotic thing for me. I understand what Colin Kaepernick and others are doing, but it's not for me.

Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.

I'm very excited to once again perform the National Anthem at Michigan International Speedway for the GFS Marketplace 400. The fans at MIS have always been great to me and it is always an honor to perform for them, whether it's a concert or the National Anthem.

... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it.

I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.

The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

I sang the National Anthem with soul.

It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.

At school my nickname is the National Anthem girl.

I don't listen to the national anthem ironically. It's a beautiful song. I love it!

If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.

The national anthem blows. Are you kidding me? Do any of you have it on your iPod?

I was the first artist to put the national anthem on the charts, and I'm thrilled.

I feel unabashedly Indian, and this means that not just do I jump to my feet and sing along with the national anthem, it also makes me inexplicably sentimental, proud and teary-eyed.

The thing about the national anthem is that it's actually a pretty difficult song to sing for anybody.

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

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.

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.

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.

I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.

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 had so much backlash because, before in NXT, I used to come out with the Bulgarian national anthem. And people were like, 'Oh, why are you embarrassing the anthem?' How am I embarrassing the anthem? I'm from the freaking country.

'The Star-Spangled Banner' should've never been made into our national anthem. That President Woodrow Wilson, widely thought to be one of the most bigoted presidents ever elected, chose it as our national anthem, is painfully telling as well.

I believe it's not 100 percent right to kneel during the national anthem, because you have to respect what many have done for this nation. I think kneeling prior to the anthem, like the Dallas Cowboys have done, is right.

Some anthems are great for sports. You've got the Russian national anthem... 'O Canada,' how wonderful is that for hockey... but I chose the Italian national song because at my first World Cup, I saw the Italians play four times, and they won all four times - they won the championship.

[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

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.

I love the national anthem.

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 sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python.

You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind.

To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.

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 personally think our national anthem is not patriotic enough. There is another poem by Dwijendralal Ray called 'Dhono Dhanne Pushpe Bhora,' which is more soul-stirring as a national anthem.

Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and our country's national anthem.' This is always an uncomfortable moment for me. While I sat at my laptop, most of the reporters around me stood and put their hands over their hearts. This time instead of just sitting and working, I tweeted what I was feeling: 'Ari_Shapiro: As a reporter I'm torn about joining in the pledge of allegiance/national anthem at rallies. I'm a rally observer, not a participant.'

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.

The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.