Flag Quotes - page 12

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. (Colin Kaepernick)
I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish. View quote
Eddi Reader
Many a bum show has been saved by the flag. View quote
George M. Cohan
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! View quote
Greg Kinnear
I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team. View quote
Gary Speed
Well, I think when you come here and wave a Mexican flag in our face in a country that's giving a lot of these people an opportunity that they've never had before, I think a lot of Americans are insulted, whether they're first-, second-, third-, fourth- or fifth-generation Americans. View quote
Henry Bonilla
Had someone from Serbia flown a Greater Serbia flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council. View quote
Ivica Dacic
I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima. View quote
J. B. Smoove
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. View quote
Jim Leyland
It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say 'gun control,' it sets a red flag. View quote
Joe Perry
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote. (Kenny Marchant)
Yes, my fellow citizens, despite what the original Constitution of the United States says about the qualifications for statehood and the guarantee of representation in Congress, by every measure that truly matters in America (bigness, crowdedness, awesomeness, Texasness), Nebraska doesn't deserve its star on the American flag. View quote
Kevin Bleyer
I am a big believer in letting your own personal freak flag fly. View quote
Kirsten Vangsness
I can't tell people what flag to fly. View quote
Lesley Stahl
I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt. View quote
Madison Smartt Bell
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! View quote
Alexander Henry
I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling. View quote
Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz
When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me. View quote
Gary Sheffield
I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat. View quote
Kirk Acevedo
I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot. View quote
Mark Shriver
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. (Martine McCutcheon)
Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium. View quote
Saina Nehwal
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition. View quote
Seth Low
I used to look like an American flag. The Padre uniform makes me look like a taco. Actually, the transition has been great. Ive made 25 new friends, and I never thought I wanted to be anything other than a Dodger, but this is fun. View quote
Steve Garvey