Top 38 Quotes About Flag Waving
#1. Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.
Max Lerner
#2. Moreover, there was what Amy called "the cocksuckers' contingent of the country" - what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots - and they were too set in their ways or too poorly educated (or both) to see beyond the ceaseless flag-waving and nationalistic bluster.
John Irving
#3. In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.
Alanis Morissette
#4. Oh,right.Like he's been in a monestary copying scripture for the last ten years." Kate squared her shoulders, her feminist flag waving high. "It's none of his damn business if you've taken on the Fifth,Six,and Seventh fleets.
Nora Roberts
#5. The cosmic perspective reminds us that in space, where there is no air, a flag will not wave - an indication that perhaps flag waving and space exploration do not mix.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#6. The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.
Ann Coulter
#7. If we were to sit and discuss abortion and legalizing marijuana and gay marriage and all those things, you'd be surprised where you'd see me on the side of some of that stuff. People get their opinions - as soon as you're a real flag-waving patriot, then all of a sudden you're a conservative.
Toby Keith
#8. War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.
Chris Hedges
#9. I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice.. Forget it.
Matt Groening
#10. All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#11. The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.
Dave Beard
#12. I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.
John Wayne
#14. When you set a good example to the world, you become a flag waving on the skies of the entire world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
Billy Corgan
#16. Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.
Nicholas Von Hoffman
#17. I'm all alone,
fuming at myself,
waving a great flag
of failure.
Emma Cameron
#18. Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
Caitlyn Jenner
#19. Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.
Walt Disney
#20. The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag,
would be during the process of folding it,
so to be used as a napkin later,
at our victory dinner.
Tom Althouse
#21. He started to smile. "Are you waving the white flag?"
"Not so fast. I'm saying we can take things slow. See if it blows up in our faces. I 'm not saying declare eternal love for each other while I fall back with my legs open.
Jeaniene Frost
#22. Old Glory in her majesty has so many promises in her wave that we have no choice but to keeping pledging and waving right back!
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#23. The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.
Norman Mailer
#24. Sometimes people are just misunderstood. People and animals. We can't just assume they are thinking one thing and can avoid temptation. it's hard as hell to avoid that red flag when it's waving in your face.
Magan Vernon
#25. The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.
Laurence J. Peter
#26. Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.
Greg Graffin
#27. When I was born, the speed limit was two miles an hour. They'd only just repealed the law where a man had to walk in front of every motor car waving a flag.
Henry Allingham
#28. You dressed in black," Nico noted, "with the sun coming up. You painted your face but didn't cover that mop of blond hair. You might as well be waving a yellow flag." Will's ears reddened. "Lou Ellen wrapped some Mist around us too.
Rick Riordan
#29. I'm a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don't go around waving the flag, of course, and I definitely do not proselytize. Homosexuality is, to me, an inner satisfaction, a pride in a heritage of greatness. To marry a woman would be an inadmissible rejection of my identity.
Paddy Chayefsky
#30. What do you want to trust me with tonight?"
A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words.
"Anything," I whispered back.
Shelly Crane
#31. If and American flag had been waving behind her, she'd have looked like a very sexy Marine Corps recruiting poster. The few, the proud, the cottontailed.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#32. Oh hell. A warm, lush, naked woman coming on to him? Nothing in the military had prepared him for an onslaught like this. The never-surrender thing went right out the window, and he started waving the white flag like a dog wagging his tail.
Maya Banks
#33. I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.
Jonathan Davis
#34. I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around.
Simon Taylor-Davis
#35. There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.
Mary Tyler Moore
#36. You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.
Kevin Rollins
#37. We will make you realize how ridiculous it was, the lot of you waving the national flag and singing the national anthem. We will prove to you that you are nothing but filthy stinking bodies. That you are no better than the carcasses of starving animals. -
Han Kang
#38. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce
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