Flags Quotes

516 quotes by 417 authors

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
Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to… — Jeanette Winterson
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
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them… — Peter S. Beagle
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
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that… — Arundhati Roy
Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I… — Banana Yoshimoto
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
THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect,… — Anne Carson
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
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived… — John McPhee
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

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