Gilbert Baker Quotes

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

I can't tell people what flag to fly.

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

I am not an American; I am the American.

It’s a little strange, this obsession with the flag. It’s incomprehensible to someone who comes from a country where the flag has, so to speak, disappeared, where any nostalgia and concern for it is a sign of an attachment to the past…

A flag should unite those over whom it flies.

It's your flag and my flag.

Flags are about proclaiming power... that visibility is key to our success and to our justice.

I represent Brazil with the flag and the belt.

Philippines, what an amazing honor it has been to carry your name across my chest and to embody you in all aspects.

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then, I kind of knew that was wrong, but I still thought, 'Wow, here's my chance to do something, to be of service to my country.'

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

I was the all-American face.

A star for every State, and a State for every star.