There are little flags, marking the trunk rings.’ He…

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

— Charles Dance

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

— Robert M. Hensel

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you…

— Terry Pratchett

Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not…

— Terry Pratchett

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bull, was like putting something…

— Terry Pratchett

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease…

— Edward Bellamy

I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some…

— Cillian Murphy

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found…

— Peter S. Beagle

If the Jews had issues with the Polish people then why during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, did the Jewish underground hang two flags from…

— Andrzej Duda

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be…

— Mark Twain

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being…

— Bill Ayers

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of…

— George C. Marshall

They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over…

— Bill Moyers

Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

— Bret Harte