Flag Quotes

531 Flag quotes by 415 unique authors

It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…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 – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” 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
She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof… — Colum McCann
A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning… — George Carlin
We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're… — Eddie Izzard
Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another -… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag.… — Cassandra Clare
Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name.… — Yann Martel
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree,… — Orson Scott Card
When the kid began to flag, Riley picked her up, swung her onto his back, and kept running. The leopard in Mercy growled in approval… — Nalini Singh
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk?… — L. Frank Baum
He started to smile. “Are you waving the white flag?” “Not so fast. I’m saying we can take things slow. See if it blows up… — Jeaniene Frost
It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing,… — Graham Greene
We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk… — Umberto Eco
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess… — Steven Pressfield
..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for… — Andrea Gibson

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415 authors contributed a total of 531 Flag Quotes, led by these top contributors: