Original Bear Flag

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

    “We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
    Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
    Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
    It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)