We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents.
Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.
Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.
Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.
The dove is my emblem.
Our opponents struggled manfully, desperately; but wind and tide were against them. They had campaign and other papers, good speakers, and large meetings; but we were far ahead of them in singing and electioneering emblems and mottoes which appealed to popular sympathies.
In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood
Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
Titles and honor and salutes it is in the power of the supreme authority in many countries to bestow, and it is from no vain or childish instinct that the world in all ages has attached value to these emblems or rewards.
1st Baron & 1st Marquis Curzon of Kedleston
The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.
Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.
Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy
Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.
Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.