Banner Quotes
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The shades of night were falling fast, As through an
Alpine village passed Ayouth, who
bore,'mid snow and ice, A banner with a
strange device, Excelsior!
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More Banner Quotes
United States, your banner wears Two emblems one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.
thomas campbell— Thomas Campbell, To the Untied States of North America (1838). (See also Lunt for answer to same).
They came with banner, spear, and shield, and it was proved in Bosworth field. Not long the Avenger was withstood, Earth help'd him with the cry of blood.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, Stanza 3. Last line probably taken from John Beaumont's Battle of Flodden Field. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.
The dusty catastrophe of Asia.Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.
— 1986 Less Than One,'Flight From Byzantium'.
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
Bible (Old Testament)— Song of Solomon 2:4.
We receive this Child into the Congregation of Christ's flock, and dosign him with thesign of the Cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end. Amen.
— Publick Baptism of Infants, Reception of the Child.
The wing trails like a banner in defeat, No more to use the sky forever but live with famine And pain a few days. 436
(John) Robinson Jeffers— 1928 Cawdor,'Hurt Hawks'.
Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.
— 1953 Marguerite. Camino Real, block 7.
March we forth in the strength of GodWith the banner of Christ unfurled,That the light of the glorious gospel of truthMay shine throughout the World.
— Hymn "God is working his purpose out"
Night my banner, and my herald Fear.
— Poem An Upper Chamber
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.
eugene v. debs— "The American Movement" (written 1898, first published 1908)
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league.
Henry Cabot Lodge— Remarks in the Senate (August 12, 1919), Congressional Record, vol. 58, p. 3784.
A song for our banner! The watchword recall which gave the Republic her station: "United we stand, divided we fall!" It made and preserves us a nation!
george pope morris— The Flag of our Union, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The banner of the third angel has inscribed upon it, "The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."
ellen g. white— Book II, Ch. 49, p. 384
It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.
georgy zhukov— Quoted in "The Military Quotation Book" - Page 15 - by James Charlton - 2002
God save the pennon, ragged to the dawn, That signs to moon to stand, and sun to fly; And flutters when the weak is overborne To stem the tide of fate and certainty. That knows not reason , and that seeks no fame So! Undismayed beneath the serried clouds, Raise up the banner of forlorn defence A jest to the complacency of crowds Bright-haloed with the one diviner sense: To hold itself as nothing to itself; And in the quest of its imagined star To lose all thought of after-recompense!
john galsworthy— Errantry, St. 4 - 5,
Love, that liveth and reigneth in my thought, That built his seat within my captive breast; Clad in the arms wherein with me he fought, Oft in my face he doth his banner rest.
howard, henry, earl of surrey— "Complaint of a Lover Rebuked", line 1
On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.
robert jordan— Narrator
To state the obvious, I thought it was wrong at the time... those statements and comments did not comport with the facts on the ground. ... But do I blame [the President] for that specific banner? I can't blame him for that.
john mccain— May 1, 2008; Fox News
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky.
Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell— A Metrical Essay
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must when our cause it is just. And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Francis Scott Key— Star-Spangled Banner
Night my banner, and my herald Fear.
— Poem An Upper Chamber (Sourced)
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.
— "A Humble Protest," Harvard Monthly, 1916
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league.
— Henry Cabot Lodge, remarks in the Senate (August 12, 1919), Congressional Record, vol. 58, p. 3784.
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 98.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
— The Star-Spangled Banner (United States, lyric by Francis Scott Key)
I don’t give a damn about “The Missouri Waltz” but I can’t say it out loud because it’s the song of Missouri. It’s as bad as “The Star-Spangled banner” so far as music is concerned.
harry s. truman— As quoted in TIME magazine (10 February 1958)
He did a forty-two minute cosmic rise in future shocks Star Spangled banner in the back of CBGB's He stopped every clock in New York state and every heart that heard him and time itself was beaten and confused and fell lamb-like under the spell of his fabulous flashing fingers He played an encore at the Bitter End a heartburst Little Wing even the waiters cried and then we fell outside and in the dusty dawn of Bleeker street a sweet rain fell and Jimi died.
mike scott— "The Return of Jimi Hendrix"
O banner! Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them; You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money; May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.
walt whitman— Drum-Taps. Song of the Banner at Daybreak.
The Star-Spangled banner celebrates the fact that, after a night of battle, the country's flag was still there. The Polish national anthem celebrates the fact that, after centuries of battle, the country is still there. This cautious, realistic anthem "Poland is not yet lost"...
— Source: (24 August 1959)"Between Two Worlds". Time. Retrieved on 2008-10-28.
