National Symbol Quotes

#1. At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

Vance Havner

#2. Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

Adrian Cronauer

#3. France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics, and France is clearly their target.

Francois Hollande

#4. Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go.

Ben Clymer

#5. My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.

Damien Chazelle

#6. Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

Friedrich Ebert

#7. I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others.

Michael Gove

#8. Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.

Steven Van Zandt

#9. Too many in America lead with their emotions when it comes to the flag, becoming illogically protective.Hell, the British treat their national symbol, the Royal Family, way worse, and they're people!

Bill Maher

#10. Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

Jack Schwartz

#11. More polar bears live in Canada than in the rest of the world combined, which raises the question, Why the hell did we choose the beaver as our national emblem? We could have had Nanuk of the North, Lord of the Arctic, as our symbol. Instead we got stuck with Squirrelly McTeeth. Sheesh.

Will Ferguson

#12. The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Marcus Garvey

#13. In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.

Helen Hayes

#14. Then he told me that I shouldn't worry too much about falling apart because the dark days only stayed dark until the sun came up.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#15. Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

John Thorn

#16. France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Charles De Gaulle

#17. If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

Harper Lee

#18. Self belief is the multivitamin pill that helps you to go that extra mile and provides motivational fuel 24X7 to achieve your goals.

Sandeep Kakkar

#19. The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#20. People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

Randy Forbes

#22. While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.

Ken Salazar

#23. Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

Michael Bloomberg