50 Flag Raising Quotes

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Flag Waving Quotes

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. β€” John Wayne

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. - Arthur C. Clarke

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. β€” Arthur C. Clarke

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. β€” James Bryce

Flag raising quote The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness, not to stop your progress.
The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness, not to stop your progress.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might. β€” Mary Tyler Moore

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. β€” Francis Scott Key

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? β€” John Wayne

Flag raising quote Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out!
Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out!

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us. β€” Al Sharpton

For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity. β€” Chad Hugo

If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag. β€” Antonio Villaraigosa

The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now! β€” T. B. Joshua

Flag Day Quotes

American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another. β€” Hal Moore

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart β€” Carlos Santana

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. β€” Kurt Vonnegut

Flag raising quote If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much mon
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue β€” George M. Cohan

All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green... β€” Ray Bradbury

When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. β€” Joseph Rodman Drake

Flag raising quote Nobody raises his reputation by lowering others.
Nobody raises his reputation by lowering others.

The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope. β€” John Philip Sousa

There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day. β€” Matt Drudge

Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag β€” Jay Leno

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred. - Adrian Cronauer

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred. β€” Adrian Cronauer

More Flag Raising Quotes

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years. β€” James Forrestal

Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure. β€” Erik Weihenmayer

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long. β€” Arnold Schwarzenegger

Flag raising quote Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again. β€” Thomas Sowell

Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership. β€” Yasser Arafat

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. β€” Jesse Ventura

Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave. β€” Ronald Reagan

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation. β€” Lord Byron

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology. β€” Godfrey Reggio

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags. β€” Danica Patrick

Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people. β€” Bashar al-Assad

If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger. β€” Daymond John

So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag. β€” Johnny Cash

Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious. β€” Wangari Maathai

Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do. β€” Haruki Murakami

For in the end it is Middle-Earth and its dwellers that we love, not Tolkien's considerable gifts in showing it to us. I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. 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. β€” Peter S. Beagle

There is no greater honor than the one received by athletes the moment they see the raised flag of their country at the highest level, and when they hear their national anthem inundating every corner of the stadium and reaching the ends of the earth. β€” Voula Patoulidou

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there. β€” Kirsty Coventry

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. β€” Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance. β€” Bryant H. McGill

I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival. β€” Milos Forman

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. β€” Peter S. Beagle

Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer. β€” Nur Muhammad Taraki

I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people, who are producing all material and immaterial equipment necessary for the life in this country and who make all efforts for prosperity and serendipity of the society. This glorious and magnificent red flag is the symbol of the greatness and pride of these people. β€” Nur Muhammad Taraki

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom. β€” Walt Disney

This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan. β€” Hamid Karzai

No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision. β€” Gloria Steinem

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk. β€” Mark Twain

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason. β€” Terry Pratchett

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. 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. β€” Peter S. Beagle

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