Flag Quotes · Page 9

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Joshua Chamberlain

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

— Helio Gracie

Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

— George Elliott Clarke

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

— Mike Schultz

I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the…

— Joe Scarborough

In all my concerts, across the world, I always sing a patriotic song with a huge Indian flag appearing on the stage.

— Devi Sri Prasad

To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.

— Pauline Hanson

“So listen -- one way to lower the flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way though. You…

— David Foster Wallace

I feel it's right for me to wear a Canadian flag baseball hat. Regardless of the fact that my wife is Canadian…

— Ashton Eaton

Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag…

— Margaret Atwood

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was…

— Woodrow Wilson

In countries like the U.S., the courts have upheld the right to burn the national flag as a mark of protest or…

— Barkha Dutt

It's a tradition that a writer will try to plant his flag in a certain city and protect that. The way to…

— George Pelecanos

America is the one place where you can talk of 'this nation' and everyone knows exactly what you think. People put a…

— Roger Scruton

One of the most tragicomic things in life is that when a man makes an imaginary thing - such as a religion…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

— J. B. Smoove

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

— Gary Rossington

“Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn…

— Bill Maher

Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we…

— Bruce Springsteen

“I’m a patriotic pilot. I know how to fly a flag. Of course I don’t fly anything anymore, not after my boating…

— Jarod Kintz

Until your country's flag is on the Moon, know your role and shut your mouth. Merica.

— Anonymous

“All of us...still believe that the American flag betokens a kind of general righteousness. But I say...that signs are signs and some…

— Donald Barthelme

After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.

— Menachem Begin

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

— Rich Lowry

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic.

— David Bowie

The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.

— Gary Rossington

I love flying the flag for Irish designers like Joanne Hynes, Simone Rocha, Natalie B Coleman, Lennon Courtney and Helen Steele.

— Laura Whitmore

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

— Amiri Baraka

We can start looking for ways to preserve our heritage outside lazily defending a flag with history steeped in racism and treason.

— Tyler Childers

The Russians haven't been to the moon. You know why? Because they're space pussies... You really want to impress us? Bring us…

— Sam Kinison

“The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag, would be during the process of folding it, so to be…

— Tom Althouse

The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles…

— Liz Truss

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

— Jackie Mason

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

— Norman Mailer

Yeah, I don't think I'm taking my shirt off to play flag football in the park with the kids.

— Ed McCaffrey

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

— Blake Anderson

On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I…

— Gianluigi Buffon

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to…

— Abraham Lincoln