Quotes About The Union Jack

#1. You found your God in a paperback,
You get your history from the Union Jack.

Oasis

#2. There has not been a conscious view of re-energising manufacturing. So, in some form, someone has to wave the Union Jack in the area of manufacturing.

Ratan Tata

#3. The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.

J.G. Ballard

#4. I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

Timothy Garton Ash

#5. Faith is not to blindly believe, son. Faith is action. It's doing something. It's creating what we need and believing that God will be merciful enough to grant it in his time.

Orson Scott Card

#6. Avoid doctors like the bubonic plague. On some level I know it's ignorant, but I think the stress of knowing you have a fatal disease kills faster than the disease itself.

Emma Chase

#7. The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

Jack Kemp

#8. Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things.

Nicole Krauss

#9. Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

Paul Ricoeur

#10. My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!

Richard Hammond

#11. Aika often says that she is the only one capable of loving me the same way I am is the one capable of loving her, and no one will be able to stand my twisted personality other than her and for me to betray her is unthinkable and impossible

Cullen Thomas

#12. I didn't mind being a goof if only he loved me. I felt when we were together that I walked in the gutter and he on the sidewalk. All I did was keep looking up to see if there was love in his eyes

Marilyn Monroe

#13. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

Cherie Carter-Scott

#14. The dogmatic radicals who assail "on principle" the inherited social notions and distinctions are not serving civilization. Society

William Graham Sumner

#15. With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it's limitless - and incredibly thrilling.

Jamie Wyeth

#16. Health experts working on a union backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were stunned when the local (ACS) cancer society not only didn't support the program, but tried to discourage participation in it.

Jack Anderson

#17. So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

Jack Kingston

#18. Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.

John Keble

#19. When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I had the Buffalo shoes, a customised Baby Spice necklace - when I say custom-made, it was made out of plastic from the local mall - and a Union Jack dress.

Blake Lively

#20. If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

Astrid Lindgren