Quotes About Insignia

#1. Why do organizations need to mark everything with their insignia? It's like a dog peeing on every tree. Google is the same way. So was NewBagel. Using

Robin Sloan

#2. Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.

Stephen Batchelor

#3. Whenever he closed his eyes, he still saw her flying, fighting with ferocious genius. He still remembered that kiss.

S.J. Kincaid

#4. In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Calloused hands were the badge of the pioneer, while furrowed brows are the insignia of modern man.

Billy Graham

#6. Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers.

Cory Doctorow

#7. There's not a person in history who achieved greatness without choking back some pride, without ever smiling at someone they despised, without playing along even if they hated the very idea of it

S.J. Kincaid

#8. An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

Norma Shearer

#9. I think Barack Obama and his team believe that the federal government is best prepared to handle virtually everything in our lives. I mean, they're socialists in every respect of the word and I think they'd like to take over everything in our lives if they could, including health care.

Mark Neumann

#10. Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness.

Stephen Batchelor

#11. The name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power

Jacqueline Rose

#12. The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things.

Chris Murray

#13. As for wrinkles
Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead.
"Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it." As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.

Cinda Williams Chima

#15. Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

#16. A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

Henry Ward Beecher

#17. Established a thriving medical practice and was a fixture at our high school sports games. He never spoke to any of us of the horrors he had seen. When one of his sons wore as a casual jacket one of Doc Auld's Army coats with the major's insignia still attached, I remember thinking,

Tom Brokaw

#18. Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.

Frederick Buechner

#19. What's a treaty? It's a piece of paper. An agreement means nothing in itself. It's the power to force others to comply with that agreement - that's all that counts. That's the sham of this whole thing."
- General Marsh

S.J. Kincaid

#20. nothing can alter the fact that beneath the fascist insignia of their uniforms, these men are fathers, husbands, sons. I

Steven Pressfield

#21. When things start to get rough, you find comfort in your faith. Knowing that no matter what, you can dust yourself off and be okay.

Marcus Mariota

#22. Those are some of the most powerful people in the world, and you swamped them in sewage! If you had real friends, they'd have told you that you're an idiot for even thinking about doing that!"

Tom bristled, indignant. "My friends do tell me I'm an idiot. All the time!

S.J. Kincaid

#23. Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a lucrative spectator sport. If humans venture back to the moon, and even beyond, they may carry commercial insignia rather than national flags.

Martin Rees

#24. A good heart cannot lye

George Herbert

#25. Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#26. Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole.

Tove Jansson

#27. For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

Francis Chan

#28. Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#29. More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.

Lewis H. Lapham

#30. Is that the only way?" Tom asked her. "Vik and I tried net-sending with a thought interface during Programming once, but I couldn't concentrate on just one thing at a time."

Vik nodded. "His programming questions were always like, 'Vik, how do steak boobs function?

S.J. Kincaid

#31. They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King.

Howard Carter

#32. That smile of hers could seriously crash planes.

S.J. Kincaid

#33. What do your crazy speciests do?" Kizzy asked.
Sissix shrugged. "Live on gated farms and have private orgies."
"How is that any different than what the rest of you do?"
"We don't have gates and anybody can come to our orgies.

Becky Chambers

#34. The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.

Walt Disney

#35. You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.

LL Cool J

#36. Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.

Sophie Turner

#37. If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.

Mart Crowley

#38. Religious minorities (including Jews) will have to wear special insignia in Iraq

Amir Taheri