Original Bear Flag

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

    “The original of the picture you inclose, and which I return, was taken from life, and is, I think, a very true one; though my wife, and many others, do not. My impression is that their objection arises from the disordered condition of the hair.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “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)