Quotes About Betsy Ross

#1. ...American history can be told and retold, claimed and reclaimed, even by people who don't look like George Washington and Betsy Ross.

Jeremy McCarter

#2. Good women are no fun ... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

Mae West

#3. If I had the flag that Betsy Ross worked so hard on, I wouldn't destroy it. I'd put it up on EBay because it's gotta be worth some serious coin. And that is the American way.

Paul Provenza

#4. When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

Kathryn Lasky

#5. I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

Kiki Smith

#6. According to government auditors, the stimulus money is being held up because there aren't enough government workers to oversee the spending. So follow me, in other words, government workers who aren't there are needed to spend money we don't have to create jobs that don't exist.

Jay Leno

#7. Being Tranquil didn't sound so bad to him. He'd been terrified of being swallowed up by the darkness for so long it seemed like it would be a relief to get it over with. You were only scared of becoming nothing until you were nothing.
Just like dying

David Gaider

#8. I don't understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It's like we're incapable of normal human interaction.

Stephanie Perkins

#9. Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written?

Orhan Pamuk

#10. Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can't stand for, forget affording.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#11. True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.

Maxwell Maltz

#12. The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!

Al Murray

#13. See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

Bill Haley

#14. Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

Betsy Ross