Top 65 Quotes About Banners
#1. The orange sun is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday's blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.
Isaac Babel
#2. The Book of Army Management says: On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough: hence the institution of gongs and drums. Nor can ordinary objects be seen clearly enough: hence the institution of banners and flags.
Sun Tzu
#3. We, the called and faithful and chosen, we will drive away our griefs, and set up our banners of confidence in the name of God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#4. The posters and rock-star buttons and banners were valueless without the perspective of the mind that had attached significance to them. Souvenirs have no worth without nostalgia, after all. They're meaningless if a memory isn't linked to them.
David Morrell
#5. Last Christmas they sat beside the hearths
Secure, together, cracking roast chestnuts
Or stale jokes about holies and ivies
As red wines cooled down another hot year
Today, even the vines threaten to stream
The streets with banners of another fire.
Jack Mapanje
#6. In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?
Yoko Ono
#7. Red. Red, the colour of the Regency, scrawled over with the iconography of the border forts, growing, fluttering. These were the banners of Ravenel. Not only the banners, but men and riders, flowing over the hilltop like wine from an over-full cup, staining and darkening its slopes, and spreading.
C.S. Pacat
#8. We must wave our banners even higher and belt out our voices even stronger and be unified as people. We're going to make it through this!
Michael Jackson
#9. The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.
Margaret Thatcher
#10. Boots and guns had replaced banners and horses, but the story was the same. Men with black hearts. With black souls.
Kate Mosse
#11. Courage is not measured by
Marching bands and banners in the wind.
If you have not walked
The bloody lines and seen the faces,
You have no right to describe it so.
We die here to keep you safe at home,
And what we suffer
Pray you may never know.
Charles Todd
#12. [T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.
Alexander Hamilton
#13. I'm not trying to project any persona. Often people don't know where to put me. I don't fit comfortably under banners, and that's fine. I'm not worried about not making sense to people. That's probably my best asset.
Riz Ahmed
#14. I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#15. Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
W.B.Yeats
#16. Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.
George Sterling
#17. Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.
Camille Paglia
#18. I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don't see any placards on myself, and I don't carry any banners.
Harold Pinter
#19. When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.
James Shirley
#20. Flyers, warming letters/gifts, business reply cards, local events (table& banners) , seminar selling, cold canvassing, voice calls, street teams/mascot, internet and inexpensive newspapers ads.
Rashaun Page
#21. It's impossible to hold up the banners of victim and victory at the same time. With
Lysa TerKeurst
#22. Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
George Santayana
#23. In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.
Henry Van Dyke
#24. Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.
Thomas Gray
#26. Flags snap in the breeze above us, banners with a lavender stalk in front of a golden maple leaf on a green background.
Sara Raasch
#27. It was a hymn with the force of a march, a march with the majesty of a hymn. It was the song of soldiers bearing sacred banners and of priests carrying swords. It was an anthem to the sanctity of strength.
Ayn Rand
#28. This was the moment he most loved about tourneying, that first glorious sortie with banners streaming, trumpets blaring, and the earth atremble with pounding hooves as hundreds of knights came together in a spectacular clash of sound and fury.
Sharon Kay Penman
#29. I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears.
Chris Hardwick
#30. Costumes are all about identifying which force in a conflict you're on. That's where banners and flags came from - so people rushing into battle knew who to follow and who was on their side.
Jim Lee
#31. [W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War.
Alexander Hamilton
#32. We will shout for joy when you are victorious and will lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your requests.
Anonymous
#33. The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#34. Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.
Knut Hamsun
#35. Smudge continued running laps, flames flickering like tiny orange banners on his back. He was never wrong about danger, but he couldn't tell you if that danger was a meteorite streaking toward the roof or an amorous moose running amok in the parking lot.
Jim C. Hines
#36. Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
Ernestine Rose
#37. Apart from these, let all others remain to guard our glorious banners.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
#38. My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
George Washington
#39. Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.
Mikhail Bakunin
#40. People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.
Bobby Knight
#41. When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.
Chili Davis
#42. We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners.
G.K. Chesterton
#43. Hear me now, o thou bleak and unbearable world
Thou art base and debauched as can be.
And a knight with his banners all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#44. Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.
Nelson Mandela
#45. May he grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your plans. 5 May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God set up our banners. May the LORD fulfill all your petitions.
Anonymous
#46. Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.
Patricia Moyes
#47. What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
Lord Byron
#48. Friends come and go but banners hang forever.
Kobe Bryant
#49. On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'
Malala Yousafzai
#50. I even hung mobiles, banners, and wind chimes from the ceiling in any wide open space." In an aside she commented, "Moving objects especially mess with their ability to pull themselves together." "Is that so? Now you're the expert on ghost prevention?" "I guess so. It worked.
Rhonda Hughes
#51. Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.
Mason Cooley
#52. Markham even had our banners ready. The polite NON AD CAPITAGIUM (No to the poll tax), the hopeful MAGIS STIPENDIUM HISTORICI (More money for historians) and the always accurate POLICITI NOSTRAE OMNEC WANKERS SUNT (Most politicians are not very good).
Jodi Taylor
#53. Children are a battle of a different sort ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.
George R R Martin
#54. If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land
Pablo Neruda
#55. If you see the Black Banners coming from Khurasan, go to them immediately, even if you must crawl over ice, because indeed amongst them is the Caliph, Al Mahdi. Then from the direction of the East will emerge black flags. FROM THE HADITH
Charles H. Dyer
#56. It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.
Orison Swett Marden
#57. True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
#58. It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.
Caroline Pratt
#59. May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
#60. Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck
#61. If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
George Eliot
#63. Go is the first part of the word Gospel.
It should be the watchword of every true follower of Christ.
It should be emblazoned on the banners of the church.
Billy Graham
#64. On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums ... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.
Sun Tzu
#65. Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.
Walter Scott
