Blue Ensign Flag

Famous quotes containing the words blue, ensign and/or flag:

    The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
    Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    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;
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
    Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
    Here once the embattled farmers stood
    And fired the shot heard round the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)