Flags Quotes
516 quotes by 417 authors
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Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the…
— Joe Barton
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I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.
— Jo Brand
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'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second,…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
— James Bryce
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The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100…
— Smedley Butler
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
— Yasser Arafat
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There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.…
— Walt Kelly
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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion…
— Arthur Koestler
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The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist…
— Matt Ghaffari
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Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind is only on…
— Sun Tzu
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If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the…
— Sun Tzu
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On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and…
— Sun Tzu
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Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that…
— Ben Hogan
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A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
— Ben Hogan
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The US Open flag eliminates a lot of players. Some players just weren't meant to win the US Open. Quite often, they know it.
— Jack Nicklaus
Who Wrote These Flags Quotes
417 authors contributed a total of 516 Flags Quotes, led by these top contributors: