Quotes About Badges

#1. You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now.

Charles Stross

#2. I know so many players who say they wouldn't entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

Gordon Taylor

#3. She walked right on past, ignoring him just like she chose to ignore the way nature had tagged her with those outsized badges of femininity, just like she was above him, and sex, and everything else that's weak and of the flesh.

Ken Kesey

#4. Before 'Cagney and Lacey,' we didn't follow officers home to find out what they did when they took their badges off and emptied their guns. So the idea that these women also had lives outside of work was really interesting to play.

Tyne Daly

#5. They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. Vimes had believed all his life that the Watch were called coppers because they carried copper badges, but no, said Carrot, it comes from the old word cappere, to capture.

Terry Pratchett

#8. 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

#9. I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

Maggie Kuhn

#10. Old as carbon," Nix agreed. "And so powerful I'm working on my demigoddess badges.

Kresley Cole

#11. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

Oliver Goldsmith

#12. The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta.

David James

#13. Instead, the lesson is that false beliefs, once they've become culturally entrenched - once they've become tribal badges of honor - are very difficult to change, and changing them is no longer simply a matter of educating people.

Joshua D. Greene

#14. At school I was easily misled, but that's childhood. I remember I used to shoplift tins of Airfix paint and football badges.

Philip Glenister

#15. Half a dozen badges slid out of the metal chute where returned coins usually appeared. Hermione scooped them up and handed them mutely to Harry over Ginny's head; he glanced at the topmost one. HARRY POTTER RESCUE MISSION

J.K. Rowling

#16. My tattoos, like most people's, were reminders, badges of personal experiences. Yes, I might wear them on my skin for the world to see, but their meaning was a little too personal.

N.R. Walker

#17. ...spells of incarceration or exile were almost badges of honour for Enlightenment writers.

Kate Berridge

#18. The transformation of Christ's bodily scars into badges of glory shows us what happens, even in this life, to our souls when we lovingly and trustingly offer our sufferings to Christ and unite them to His. He turns "deformity" into "dignity".

Peter Kreeft

#19. Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.

Hippolyte Taine

#20. Apparently they're going to bring in Super Asbos. But Asbos already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them Gaybos or Bender Badges.

Frankie Boyle

#21. Dangerous. Reckless. Foolish. Mad. The words were beginning to feel more like badges of pride than blows. Downstairs,

V.E Schwab

#22. 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

#23. Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges.

Katharine Hepburn

#24. Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Charles Ives

#25. People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

Joy Kogawa

#26. exists. Why all these speeches and monuments. Tradition is the crown of the tyrant. I eye all the Golds in their badges and Sigils and standards, all worn to legitimize corrupt reign, and to alienate the people. Make them feel they watch a species beyond their comprehension.

Pierce Brown

#27. I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

Steven Gerrard

#28. I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.

Ian Rush

#29. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. 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

#31. Scars are badges of honors. They tell people you've lived a full life

Lizzy Ford

#32. Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

Edmund Morgan

#33. Merit badges are these little patches you get for learning how to do all sorts of manly stuff.

Jeff Kinney

#34. Don't get me started on the little airplane name badges, Natalie grumbled.

Peter Lerangis

#35. Scars are badges of strength and courage. They tell the story of what we have endured. Only survivors wear them.

Kaki Warner

#36. I wear my mistakes like badges of honor, and I celebrate them.

Amy Schumer

#37. Heroes don't always wear capes, badges, or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.

Andrea Randall

#38. I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season.

Alan Shearer

#39. We don't need no stinking badges!

John Belushi

#40. Other people collected friends like badges but Lana chose only one - and that friendship was pinned so close to her heart that removing it had left behind a jagged tear.

Lucy Clarke

#41. We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

Lawton Chiles

#42. And while a bald head and a looped ribbon were seen as badges of courage and hope, her reluctant vocabulary and vanishing memories advertised mental instability and impending insanity. Those with cancer could expect to be supported by their community. Alice expected to be an outcast.

Lisa Genova

#43. I was racking up prescription slips like Boy Scout badges. What didn't I have?

Jason Diamond

#44. As I was saying...They train these girls to be like tiny ninjas. They have to earn special badges for the survival skills that they learn, kinda like how we teach the cadets. Now to balance out all the weapons training and harshness of wilderness survival, they also teach them to bake cookies.

Alanea Alder

#45. War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#46. Having a bunch of medals and badges doesn't necessarily mean you've achieved anything, you've got to do something beyond yourself to make a difference in life. Seek to be consequential in whatever you do.

Paula Broadwell

#47. Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.

Kurt Vonnegut

#48. Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.

Terry Pratchett

#49. In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.

Jonathan Raban

#50. Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no coloured belts like judo, so the male yoga expert needs some other kind of visible symbol.

Russell Smith

#51. She strutted into the room, armour-plated in white linen, belligerent as a battleship. The bib of her apron, starched rigid as a board, curved against a formidable bosom on which she wore her nursing badges like medals of war.

P.D. James

#52. She was my assignment."
"From The Eye?"
"No, from the Boy Scouts. That Witch Dating badge just kept eluding me."
"Well, you must have at least three Total Douchebag badges by now, so that has to count for something.

Rachel Hawkins

#53. The Beats are really nothing more than a troop of malevolent Boy Scouts trying to earn badges for cultural arson.

Carlene Bauer

#54. Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out for what they are, wearing badges. Twitter is like the new Scarlet Letter.

Carrie Brownstein

#55. Flaws weren't pariah; foibles were badges of character. Not something to be brushed away in Photoshop.

Peter Tieryas

#56. The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene.

Neal Stephenson

#57. I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

Wayne Rooney

#58. We make enemies, sometimes through no fault of our own, and sometimes our enemies become badges of honor.

Susan Rieger

#59. This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

Dan Quayle

#60. The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Novalis

#61. If you are a police dog, where's your badge?

James Thurber

#62. Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.

Mal Fletcher

#63. The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men.

Lynn G. Robbins

#64. The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#65. Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

Man Ray

#66. Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

Charlie Kaufman

#67. Vibrato is the badge of tonal maturity.

Gerald Fischbach

#68. The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.

Norman Spinrad

#69. I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to kneel down to me because I'm the law.

Ice-T

#70. I'm a star: SHERIFF BADGE.

Nicki Minaj

#71. Stress is not ... a badge of courage

Kris Carr

#72. I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.

Simon Munnery

#73. To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

Mahatma Gandhi