White Flag Quotes:

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

- Alexander H. Stephens

source: Alexander H. Stephens' “Corner Stone” Speech, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 21, 1861.

topic: Philosophical, Men, Race, Cornerstones, Subordination

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

- George M. Cohan

source: "You're a Grand Old Flag" by George M. Cohan, 1906.

topic: 4th Of July, Heart, Blue, Heart Beat, Most Patriotic

Before pride waves a white flag, it waves all other colors.

- Akiane Kramarik

topic: Pride, Color, White, White Flag

There will be no white flag above my door, I'm in love and always will be

- Dido Armstrong

topic: Doors, White, Flags, White Flag

Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.

- Addison Webster Moore

topic: Revenge, Gun, White, Loaded Gun, White Flag

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

- Stephen King

topic: Memories, War, Cancer, Truce, White Flag

The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

- R. S. Thomas

topic: Zero, Home, Thinking, Truce, White Flag

Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.

- Bashar al-Assad

source: "'Peace without Syria Is Unthinkable'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz, www.spiegel.de. January 19, 2009.

topic: White, People, Wish, White Flag

This is not my fault! Any ideas?” “You don't have a white flag, do you?

- Andy McDermott

topic: Ideas, White, Flags, White Flag

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

- Roseanne Barr

topic: Success, Winning, White, White Flag

The Suns, meanwhile, appeared to be hoisting a white flag over the Arizona desert. With a 12-22 record at the time, they were clearing out big contracts for salary-cap relief and a chance to start over again the following summer. We are taking a step backward in the immediate run, .. But we're certainly looking forward to the future.

- Bryan Colangelo

topic: Summer, Running, White, Looking Forward To The Future, White Flag

IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has bent down in his old kindly fashion, And breathed upon her his immortal breath. On wounded soldiers, in their anguish lying, Her gentle spirit shall descend like rain. Where the white flag with the red cross is flying, There shall she dwell, the vanquisher of pain.

- Joyce Kilmer

source: Joyce Kilmer (1911). “Summer of Love”

topic: Fashion, Pain, Lying, White Flag, Wounded Soldier

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

- Kevin B. Rollins

topic: White, Example, Flags, Ibm, White Flag

He started to smile. “Are you waving the white flag?” “Not so fast. I’m saying we can take things slow. See if it blows up in our faces. I ’m not saying declare eternal love for each other while I fall back with my legs open.

- Jeaniene Frost

source: Jeaniene Frost (2010). “One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.78, Hachette UK

topic: Fall, Blow, White, White Flag

They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.

- Argus Hamilton

topic: Taken, White, House, White Flag, Duct Tape

Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. "I have an invitation. These"--she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm--"are my friends." Magnus plucked the invitation out of her hand and looked at it with fastidious distaste. "I must have been drunk," he said. He threw the door open. "Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace looked at him, "Even if one of them spills something on my new shoes?" "Even then." - 219

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Children, Hands, Shoes, Fastidious, White Flag

I listen a little to the Democrats, and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense," Giuliani continued. "We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-September 11 attitude of defense.

- Rudy Giuliani

topic: Attitude, Cutting, Iraq, Patriot Act, White Flag

I love Israel for its blue and white flag as it matches my legs.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Love Is, Israel, Blue, White Flag, Blue And White

..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor's corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep?

- Andrea Gibson

topic: Girl, Mother, Dream, White Flag, Blindfolds