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
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.
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'.
The sociologists of knowledge have been among those raising high the banner which reads: 'We don't know if what we say is true, but it is at least significant.' The sociologists and psychologists engaged in the study of publicopinionand mass communications aremost often found in the opposed camp of the empiricists? 'We don't know that what we say is particularly significant, but it is at least true.'
— 1968 Social Theory and Social Structure (rev. edn), pt.3, introduction.
No blazoned banner we unfold One charge alone we give to youth, Against the sceptred myth to hold, The golden heresy of truth.
— 'On Behalf of Some Irishmen not Followers ofTradition'.
Love, that doth reign and live within my thought, And 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.
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of— 1557 'Love, that doth reign'.
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"
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).
Men of Harlech! On to glory,See your banner, famed in story,Waves these burning words before ye,"Britain scorns to yield!"
— Song Men of Harlech
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
fernando pessoa— Original: Levo comigo a consciência da derrota como um pendão de vitória.
— Ibid., p. 79
Up with the banner of your new Lord, Jehovah Jesus! Raise it in firm decision, with quiet earnestness and with humble prayer; keep it with unflinching fortitude, and be ready to die rather than dishonor it.
william mackergo taylor— P. 80. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Throw thy bold banner to the breeze!Front with thy ranks the threatening seasLike thine own proud armorial trees, Carolina!Fling down thy gauntlet to the Huns,And roar the challenge from thy guns;Then leave the future to thy sons, Carolina!
henry timrod— "Carolina", st. VII, 2–3
— An adaptation of this poem , edited by G.R. Goodwin and set to music by Anne Curtis Burgess, was adopted as the official state song of Carolina in 1911.
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
In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Führer, I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the saviour of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God.
baldur von schirach— An oath written by Schirach about Hitler. Quoted in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" - Page 253 - by William Lawrence Shirer - Germany - 1990
Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet, Flag famed in song and story Long may it wave, old glory The flag that has never known defeat.
— Charles L. Benjamin and George D. Sutton, The Flag That Has Never Known Defeat.
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
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.
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
— Original: Levo comigo a consciência da derrota como um pendão de vitória.
— Ibid., p. 79
When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and blazon from sea to sea In the name of the Dead the banner of Peace … that will be Victory.
robert service— The Song of the Pacifist.
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)
