Emblems Quote by Ilka Chase Download Open image “I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.” — Ilka Chase ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emblems Felt Potatoes Rose Should Tudors
We have far too many Tudors. Henry VIII is far too over-rated. He's become the ultimate brand name, like the Marks & Spencers of… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales — Ian Lucas Copy Share
I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
As a result of my upbringing, I was interested in reconnecting with my family and making them proud. Therefore, this emotional connection meant that… — Karen Bardsley Copy Share Image
I think there is a very strong sense of Irish identity, and I think partly that's to do with the fact that we have… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
“Too many in America lead with their emotions when it comes to the flag, becoming illogically protective.Hell, the British treat their national symbol, the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it. — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that… — Hudson Maxim Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way that solitude… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
