Flag Day Commemorates

Famous quotes containing the words flag, day and/or commemorates:

“Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow—red, yellow, brown, black and white—and we’re all precious in God’s sight.”
—Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)

“How selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.”
—C. Day Lewis (20th century)

“The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)