Flags Quotes - Page 11

• Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

  John Prine

  Religious, Jesus, Heaven

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• What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.

  Chris Witty

  Opportunity, World, Olympics

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• Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Sex, Degrees, Politics

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• Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

  Tupac Shakur

  Politics, Neglect, Allegiance

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• My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye, but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died. He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me, to grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

  Toby Keith

  Mother, Brother, Growing Up

  Song: Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue, Album: Greatest Hits 2, 2002

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• I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn't be able to get the car. I've still got a red flag on my credit.

  Claude Brown

  Red Flags, Car, Credit

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• My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.

  Don McLean

  Grateful, People, Forever

  Don McLean (2008). “The Legendary Songs of Don McLean (Songbook)”, p.82, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• 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

  Believe, Scotland, Four

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• Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

  Karl Shapiro

  Funeral, Devil, Finals

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• Liberals believe in burning the American flag, urinating on crucifixes, and passing out birth control pills to 11-year-olds without telling their parents -- but God forbid an infidel touch a Quran at Guantanamo.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Years, Parent

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• I never expected i, in the first place, when I started playing tennis, that I would ever carry the flag into the Olympic Stadium for an Olympic Games... So for me that was a surprise and a huge honor in my life to be able to represent Switzerland.

  Roger Federer

  Games, Tennis, Honor

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• To me it hit home when the US took away the pledge of allegiance from the kids in school. People that migrate to come to this country can't learn to love a flag that means universal freedom no matter where you come from, you can come here to try and have a better life.

  Cristian Machado

  Country, Home, School

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Lot Of Strip Clubs in Florida... Good grief... Florida has so many strip clubs, they need to change their state flag to a brass pole.

  Wanda Sykes

  Grief, Florida, Needs

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

  Daniel Tosh

  Red Flags, Dating, Bigs

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• I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

  J. B. Smoove

  Iwo Jima, People, Black

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• I have seen many things in my life, many things in war and I have cried may times in my life. But when the runner carries the flame into the stadium, and the birds are freed and all the flags in the world are flying, I cry. I must cry.

  Jules Ladoumegue

  War, Flames, Bird

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• May I just single out for salutations, on the "anti-war" side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam.

  Julie Burchill

  Stars, War, Dancer

  "Silly show-offs against Saddam!" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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• Before pride waves a white flag, it waves all other colors.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Pride, Color, White

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• 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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Political, Speech, Behind You

  "Bernie Sanders on politics, Clinton and guns". Interview with Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

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• As far as other people like in the migration, where they're going, tens of thousands of people having cell phones with ISIS flags on them? I don't think so.They're not coming to this country.And if I'm president and if Obama has brought some to this country, they are leaving. They're going. They're gone.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Phones

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Coalition [against ISIS] need the tools. And the tools involve encryption where we cannot hear what they're even planning. And when we see red flags, a father, a mother, a neighbor who says we have got a problem here, then we have to give law enforcement the ability to listen so they can disrupt these terrorist attacks before they occur.

  John Kasich

  Mother, Father, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Yeah, letting go - even just musically, aside from emotionally - I find that quite challenging. Knowing the right time for letting go of my album, for instance, was a really big challenge. Knowing when to put the red flags up and say, "It's done..." And also, emotionally, with relationships.

  Kimbra

  Letting Go, Red Flags, Knowing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm trying to fly the flag for the days of electronic music where people who are making it are also building the gear because that was what was happening in the very early days of electronic music. And that spirit is one of the things that really appeals to me about electronic music so I'm putting this forward as a way to keep that.

  Squarepusher

  People, Trying, Gears

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

  Ann Coulter

  Gourds, Epithet, Flag Waving

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.5, Crown Forum

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• It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about running down America. Anti-Americanism - a stand-in for hatred of Western civilization - became the stuff of sophisticates and intellectuals as never before. Flag burners became the truest "patriots" because dissent - not just from partisan politics, but the American project itself - became the highest virtue.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Running, Patriotic, America

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.197, Crown Forum

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