Quotes About National Anthems

#1. Nations will seldom obtain good national anthems by offering prizes for them. The man and the occasion must meet.

John Philip Sousa

#2. I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

Ronald Reagan

#3. And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems.

Brian Moore

#4. We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. My father is an old man, my lord. Well past forty. His fighting days are done.

George R R Martin

#6. Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.

Barbara Demick

#7. Some anthems are great for sports. You've got the Russian national anthem ... 'O Canada,' how wonderful is that for hockey ... but I chose the Italian national song because at my first World Cup, I saw the Italians play four times, and they won all four times - they won the championship.

George Vecsey

#8. He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

Aristotle.

#9. When people die, Vargas - I mean the people you will always remember, the ones who changed your life - they never really go away, Pepe told the young doctor.

John Irving

#10. A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

Seneca The Younger

#11. Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

T. S. Eliot

#12. I talk a lot. I express a lot of my feelings verbally.

Julie Delpy

#13. No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

Steve Scalise

#14. Never lose your heart, Elena. No matter if the world tells you it makes you weak. Immortals have so much power. It is good to have a weakness.

Nalini Singh

#15. Trannies dress up like women, then try to bang straight guys. They're the adrenaline junkies of gayness.

Dov Davidoff

#16. Say it again."
She giggled before she said, "I love you."
"Oh, baby, I love you. More than you'll ever know.

Toni Aleo

#17. Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

Ellen G. White