Stripes Quotes

• I asked the Zebra,
  are you black with white stripes?
  Or white with black stripes?
  And the zebra asked me,
  Are you good with bad habits?
  Or are you bad with good habits?

  Shel Silverstein

  Zebras, White, Black

  Shel Silverstein, “Who Does She Think She Is....”

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• The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

  Alan Keyes

  Stars, Sea, Long

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• Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• I secretly want to be a zebra. That is why I always wear stripes.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Zebras, Want

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• My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Dream, Stars, Flag Day

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• Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

  Jane Pauley

  Life Changing, People, Different

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• Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

  Ernest Gaines

  Stars, African American, Questioning Everything

  Ernest J. Gaines (2012). “Bloodline: Five Stories”, p.95, Vintage

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• We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Racist, Leopards

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• Now I’m floating like a butterfly
  Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
  I went from zero, to my own hero

  Katy Perry

  Zero, Hero, Butterfly

  Song: Roar

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• I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Strong, Addiction, Trying

  "Do You Sometimes Mispronounce Designer Names? This TV Star Does and Totally Owns It". Interview with Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. April 29, 2014.

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• Take care not to wear stripes that are out of sync with your wrinkles.

  George Burns

  Wrinkles, Care, Sync

  George Burns, Hal Goldman (1992). “Wisdom of the 90s”, Perigee Books

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• At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He didn't like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks.

  Priscilla Presley

  Looks, Said, Print

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• In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

  Bob Dylan

  Sweet, Stars, Milk And Honey

  Song: Angelina

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• I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

  Shel Silverstein

  Zebras, White, Black

  Shel Silverstein, “Who Does She Think She Is....”

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• Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, Twilight, Home

  "The Star-Spangled Banner" (song) st. 1 (1814)

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• God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity!
  Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Zebras, Sunset

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• We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.

  Charlie Dent

  Stars, Pride, Stronger

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• We don't want any candy stripes on our uniforms. These are work clothes.

  Darrell Royal

  Clothes, Want, Uniforms

  Darrell Royal, Robert Heard (1976). “Dance with who Brung Us: Quips and Quotes from Darrell Royal”

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• There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Stars, War, Patriotic

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dad, Compassion, Judging

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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• Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.

  Alan Rickman

  Teacher, Children, Life Changing

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• I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

  Mort Walker

  Stars, Demise

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• I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'

  John F. Kerry

  Gratitude, Stars, Military

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• My sister-in-law is so skinny that she has a striped dress with only one stripe.

  Phyllis Diller

  Sister In Law, Dresses, Skinny

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• It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.

  Eve Merriam

  Stars, Home, Cat

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