Flagpoles Quotes

• I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Color, Enemy

  Douglas MacArthur's address to Colonel George M. Jones and the 503rd Regimental Combat Team who recaptured Corregidor (March 2, 1945) as quoted in "Bureau of Navigation News Bulletin", 1945.

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• Using Viagra is like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.

  Harvey Korman

  Viagra, Building

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• On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, War, Towns

  Katherine Paterson (2003). “Preacher's Boy”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing

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• Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.

  A.M. Homes

  Family, Children, Agreement

  A.M. Homes (2012). “The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.93, Granta Books

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• Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Mean, Roots

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• The "Wet Tongue Gets Stuck To A Frozen Flagpole" attack!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Frozen, Tongue, Stuck

  "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood". Anime series, 2009-2010.

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• She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she’d accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was “that awful O’Neill girl” all over again.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Boys, Ohio

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• I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Next, Said

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