Original Bear Flag

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

    “It is conventional to call “monster” any blending of dissonant elements.... I call “monster” every original inexhaustible beauty.”
    —Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)

    “Yet I would bear my shortcomings
    With meet tranquility,
    But for the charge that blessed things
    I’d liefer not have be.
    O, doth a bird deprived of wings
    Go earth-bound wilfully!”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “There’s 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)