Original Bear Flag

Famous quotes containing the words original, bear and/or flag:

    “The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
    Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;

    Bravest of all in Frederick town,
    She took up the flag the men hauled down;”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)