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Flags Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- 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…
- 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…
- Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of…
More Flags Quotes
- The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon… — Henry McNeal Turner
- Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and… — Joe Barton
- 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — Geraldine Brooks
- Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. — James Bryce
- There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always… — Walt Kelly
- ...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of… — Arthur Koestler
- Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea… — Henry Van Dyke
- The point I wish to make is that those things cause the soldier to remember that the people at home are behind… — John J. Pershing