Flags Quotes

516 quotes by 417 authors

My hair is so scary that if you saw it walking down the street, you'd cross to the other side. This humidity is not helping.… — Susane Colasanti
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap peopleâ€™s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking… — Arundhati Roy
Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason. — Terry Pratchett
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts… — C.S. Lewis
Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag? — Ken Follett
The shouts of triumph become infectious, and I lift my voice to join in, running toward my teammates. Christina holds the flag up high, and… — Veronica Roth
I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols… — Susan Abulhawa
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding,… — Barack Obama
Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to… — Matthew Quick
This is not my fault! Any ideas?â€ â€œYou don't have a white flag, do you? — Andy McDermott
I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country,… — Howard Zinn
It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see,… — Mark Twain
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we… — Calvin Coolidge
The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their… — Woodrow Wilson
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic. — Scott Ritter
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps… — Mark Twain
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H.G. Wells
If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is… — Michael Parenti
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. — Arundhati Roy

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