Top 100 Badge Quotes
#1. Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor.
Paul Broun
#2. My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.
Max Lucado
#3. Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man.
George Foreman
#4. Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
Charlie Kaufman
#5. Her breast, with its badge of shame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed one.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#6. I see a badge on four belts. I'd like it explained why he's here," Debbie demanded, eyeing up Cal.
"Mostly 'cause there's nothin' on TV," Cal replied, Debbie's eyes narrowed and Merry chuckled.
Kristen Ashley
#8. She pulled her arm free from his grasp and stood back, her arms crossed. "So, what then? You're holding me hostage? Are you even really a sheriff?"
"I am," he said, highly amused at her attempt at bravado. "You wanna see my badge?
Roxanne Snopek
#9. It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.
Rhys Ifans
#10. Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.
Poppy Z. Brite
#11. The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.
Hilda Scott
#12. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge?
Terry Pratchett
#13. I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. Catelyn had never been so glad to see the twin tower badge of House Frey.
George R R Martin
#15. A good game gives us meaningful accomplishment - clear achievement that we don't necessarily get from real life. In a game, you've beaten level four, the boss monster is dead, you have a badge, and now you have a super laser sword. Real life isn't like that, right?
Jesse Schell
#16. Getting shocked was a badge of honor for Woz. He prided himself on being a hardware engineer, which meant
Walter Isaacson
#17. The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus Garvey
#19. He might fight under my badge, Bet'anya, but you're the only one he would die for.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. since I'm still healing from my gunshot wound. That I wear like a badge of honor. My baby gave me this injury. 'Cause she loves me.
April Brookshire
#21. New Rule: If we want to find a place to cut government waste, we must start with the DEA rubber duck. Yes, on the DEA's website you can buy a rubber ducky with a DEA badge and a cop's hat. Which I recommend doing, because they're a great place to hide your weed.
Bill Maher
#22. With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us comparing prices in virtually every market, it is natural to turn budget management into a skill, an accomplishment, a badge of lifestyle success.
Joe Staton
#23. The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.
Deepak Chopra
#24. Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
Man Ray
#25. A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair, which even God and nature have given them for a covering, a token of subjection, and a natural badge to distinguish them from men.
William Prynne
#26. But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.
Tim Holden
#27. You wear your shame like a badge, because you don't have the balls to actually pin one on.
Brian Azzarello
#29. Work - the ultimate badge of health.
Ian McEwan
#30. Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
Juliette Gordon Low
#31. When I left SNL, I gave Seth a badge of courage, like Dorothy give to the Cowardly Lion ... He kept it in his pocket during "Update" until he didn't need it anymore. Now it sits in a box on his desk at Late Night.
Amy Poehler
#32. Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
Tallulah Bankhead
#33. People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.
David Adam
#34. Having your work hated by certain people is a badge of honor.
Austin Kleon
#35. I wear the word victim like a badge of honor - my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.
Mary E. DeMuth
#36. Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.
Sylvester Stallone
#37. Being a "friend of sinners" is an accusation that Christians should wear as a badge of honor, for nothing could honor Jesus more, and nothing is more revealing of who God actually is.
Ronnie McBrayer
#38. Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.
Richard Manning
#39. Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?"
Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced.
George Orwell
#40. One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement
I carry around a police badge with me, for example. I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That's when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born.
Dan Aykroyd
#42. Congratulations. Your official super-nerd badge is in the mail.
Rachel Vincent
#43. It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.
Pete Waterman
#44. Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. We excite ourselves with dark thoughts in plays, poems, novels, movies.
Ian McEwan
#45. But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
Banksy
#46. Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.
Lisa Scottoline
#47. This kiss would be with me, invisible badge or scar, when I went back to the apartment.
Jonathan Lethem
#48. I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.
Judd Nelson
#49. For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
Manuel Moroun
#50. All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#51. Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.
Stephen King
#52. Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor.
Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.
George R R Martin
#53. Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children.
Russell Crowe
#54. Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.
Terry Pratchett
#55. What I think is so special about "Goosebumps" [movie] is it kind of a badge of courage for kids. They're scared and then they get through it and they're so proud of themselves that they made it through.
Neal H. Moritz
#56. The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.
Hjalmar Schacht
#58. The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#59. NIKKI: Yep! I'm trying to help her earn a cooking badge for Scouts. Any ideas for a super-EZ brat-proof snack? BRANDON:
Rachel Renee Russell
#60. The smile is civilization's finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind's coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible so that it will always appear friendly. For it is all a matter of appearance. The smile is culture's diploma: it is the diplomat's badge.
Iwan Goll
#61. The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men.
Lynn G. Robbins
#62. So people keep asking me what this badge is for ... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!
Gerard Way
#63. There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official.
Gloria Reuben
#64. The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power - and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor.
Glenn Greenwald
#65. This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
Dan Quayle
#66. The badge of honesty is simplicity.
Novalis
#67. Character is not something one wears on their sleeve, shoulder or badge on their chest. It resides in the core of ones being and his displayed by actions and words.
John Paul Warren
#68. In our relentless pursuit of the almighty A and the perfect GPA, something got lost - learning. Grades became the be-all and end-all, the goal itself, not an indicator of achieving the goal of learning. Grades have become the commodity, the badge of success and smarts, the ticket to college.
Cathy Vatterott
#69. Does anybody know how I feel?
Sometimes I'm numb ...
Sometimes I'm overcome ...
Does anybody care what's going on?
Do I have to wear my scars
Like a badge on my arm?
For you to see me
I need to release
ZOEgirl
#70. I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.
Michael Scheuer
#71. I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.
Becki Newton
#72. Likely both. If you're going to bust them, I'll wait." "Only take a minute." She stepped to the curb, shouted over the dented hood of an ancient Mini, "Hey!" And waved her badge in the air. Both bulky dealer and skinny junkie pounded sidewalk in opposite directions.
J.D. Robb
#73. [ ... ] morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [ ... ] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them
Marilyn Manson
#74. Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.
Mike Rowe
#75. He remembers his fathers last words: Stay out of churches, son. All they got a key to is the shit house. And swear to me you'll never wear a lawman's badge.
William S. Burroughs
#76. Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
Robert Jordan
#77. Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.
Matthew Henry
#78. Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.
Mark Twain
#79. I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served.
Stephanie Adams
#80. Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked at me - I think by now I had dropped the bat to my side, at least, though I must have looked ridiculous anyway - and he raised his eyebrows. 'Get back in the house, Babe Ruth.
William Landay
#81. {My mom] long ago advised me, when I was feeling blue or self-doubting about men, that the best thing to do was go out and buy a red lipstick or a red dress. 'It will be your red badge of courage,' she said.
Maureen Dowd
#82. It feels good, it feels like a badge of honor, honestly. Amongst the artists here, in California, that festival is such a big deal. People live and die for Coachella. So to be a part of it on such a big scale is really flattering, and I feel really lucky to be part of the community.
Zella Day
#83. I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
William McKinley
#84. But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.
Kathleen Sebelius
#85. Don't seek a failure-less life.
Wear failure as a badge of honour. Seek a fearless life !
Manoj Arora
#86. Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.
Matthew Henry
#87. I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.
Bert Jansch
#88. What can I do for you, Detective?' he said cheerily, smiling and nodding at Bailey.
What was I, chopped liver? I had a badge too. Maybe I should've shown it to him. Maybe I should've shown him my gun too.
Marcia Clark
#89. Katherine was sitting alone at a table, but she didn't look lonely. In fact, there was a small, defiant smile on her lips. As if she wanted to be alone. As if the fact people avoided her was a badge.
Victoria Schwab
#91. If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
#92. Coppers were always outnumbered, so being a copper only worked when people let it work. If they refocused and realized you were just another standard idiot with a pennyworth of metal for a badge, you could end up as a smear on the pavement.
Terry Pratchett
#93. I've actually been in more Elimination Chamber matches than any other human being on the planet. It really has been a badge of honor for me.
Chris Jericho
#94. A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to be prepared to give service in it.
Juliette Gordon Low
#95. The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. Well done, Mica," Phoenix congratulated him. "You've just earned your baby-jiggling badge. Be sure to unlock all the infant services badges.
Ronel Van Tonder
#97. The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.
Billy Graham
#98. Yet Trump has managed to convince his legions that making vile comments about someone is a revolutionary act, a badge of honor and a long-overdue tipping of society's scales back toward reason and truth. Sometimes he's right, but so is the proverbial stopped watch.
Kathleen Parker
#99. Prayer is not meant to be a burden or used as a badge of holiness. Instead, it is a gift of God that when used properly should yield great victory in our lives.
Paul Silway
#100. He opened his coat to reveal his badge, but I confess I didn't peer closely enough to commit the number to memory. This
Sue Grafton
