Original Bear Flag

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

    “The most original sin is not the thinker’s but the poet’s.”
    —José Bergamín (1895–1983)

    “O you mighty gods!
    This world I do renounce, and in your sights
    Shake patiently my great affliction off.
    If I could bear it longer, and not fall
    To quarrel with your great opposeless wills,
    My snuff and loathed part of nature should
    Burn itself out.”
    —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)