British Blue Ensign

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

    “Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over—except when they are different.”
    —Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Quoted in Guardian (London, July 21, 1988)

    “Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.”
    —Thomas Arnold (1795–1842)

    “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)