Famous quotes containing the words original, bear and/or flag:
“As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Thine eyes shall see the light of distant skies:
Yet, Cole! thy heart shall bear to Europes strand
A living image of our own bright land,
Such as upon thy glorious canvas lies;”
—William Cullen Bryant (17941878)
“Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment. The system of universal education is in our age the most prominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the people the center of the days demonstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship.”
—Benjamin Harrison (18331901)