Flags Quotes

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.

Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.

If you tell a guy you don't like being tickled and he tickles you anyway, that's a red flag.

I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

I think caring more about flags than people is an issue. I'd like to see that change.

I will not date a woman from China, because that is a big red flag.

If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there’s media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.

We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.

I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.

I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.

No disrespect to anyone. I just didn't know where the flag was.

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 officers are angry, it means that the men are weary.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.

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 find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one.

Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

It was hard walking around the pitch... You do that when you win trophies. The fans were throwing flags on and that was hard to take, something which put a lump in your throat.

The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag