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 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.
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.
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"
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 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.
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
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
Night my banner, and my herald Fear.
— Poem An Upper Chamber (Sourced)
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)
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.
