Original Bear Flag

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

    “Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.”
    —Malcolm Bradbury (b. 1932)

    “You are come in very happy time
    To bear my greeting to the senators
    And tell them that I will not come today.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “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)