Flags Quotes

What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.

Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.

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?

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.

I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!

In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre.

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.

I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag.

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.

I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help. (said at Stamford Bridge)

By the way, I don't mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days for Mandela. He did not order the flag at half-mast at all for Lady Thatcher.

You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.

In 1996, a Republican governor in South Carolina tried to take the flag down. He was voted out.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

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. It's just an excuse for my hair to let its frizz flag fly.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

A National Flag is the most sacred thing a nation can possess

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

How do you know they aren't the one? At the first sight of total disregard for your hurt, your gut will feel uneasy. I'm reminding you to listen up.

Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination.

Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth’s charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

The red flags are usually there, you just have to keep your eyes open wider than your heart.

If you ignore the red flags, embrace the heartache to come.

Six guns rattling rattling boom boom boomWords and flags folding, folding, foldedThe knell tolls ding ding ding ding ....

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