Famous quotes containing the words symbols, flag, triangles and/or moons:
“The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. We seem to be touched by a wand, which makes us dance and run about happily, like children. We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms. Poets are thus liberating gods.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Theres an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
“If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (16891755)
“Since moons decay and suns decline,
How else should end this life of mine?”
—John Masefield (18781967)