Quotes About National Symbols

#1. Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

Slobodan Milosevic

#2. My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia ... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

Malcolm Turnbull

#3. From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

Gary Ackerman

#4. I will never, never be the same.
I have seen stars.
Real stars.

Beth Revis

#5. A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

Edward Sapir

#6. I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.

Ani DiFranco

#7. Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art.

Penelope Cruz

#8. Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. To find yourself in a land that seems ungodly is to seek God for the mantle to extend kingdom principles there

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

Julian Baggini

#11. It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. Israel must remove the two blue stripes from its national flag. The stripes on the flag are symbols of occupation. They signify Israel's borders stretching from the River Euphrates to the River Nile.

Mahmoud Al-Zahar

#13. When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.

Michael Enzi

#14. When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#15. Econowives, they're called. These

Margaret Atwood

#16. If he held me in true regard he would not believe such insinuations in my disfavour. A worthy lover should assume one has unanswerable motives for all one does!" "Certainly -

Whit Stillman