Flag Quotes

531 quotes by 415 authors

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard… — Shane Claiborne
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait… — Albert Camus
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very… — Terry Pratchett
Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a… — Margaret Atwood
But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag. — Haruki Murakami
I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves… — Molly Ivins
It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died… — Stephen King
Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag. — Mae West
You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!"… — Tom Robbins
It comes as a great shockâ€¦to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegianceâ€¦has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a… — James A. Baldwin
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn… — Barbara Kingsolver
However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch â€“ American flag place mats, patriotic â€œbody crystals,â€ flag… — Sarah Vowell
Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast. — Henry Miller
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its… — Henry Ward Beecher
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… — Rod McKuen
When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode… — Dorothy Parker
But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming… — Barbara Kingsolver
Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead… — Haruki Murakami
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were… — Terry Pratchett

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