Stand For The National Anthem Quotes & Sayings

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling. — Sidney Crosby

Your love will never conquer what this society raised them to be. — Con Template

I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though. — Idina Menzel

Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn't imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem. — Travis J. Dahnke

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide. — Ira Glasser

Your nerve endings
I know their plot
To attack
My never endings
Until we fall asleep
In each other's arms — Iain S. Thomas

Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in. — Maureen Corrigan

You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita — Laurell K. Hamilton

Living in society, we must share the suffering of our fellow citizens and practice compassion and tolerance not only toward our loved ones but also toward our enemies. — Dalai Lama XIV

I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler. — Steve Carell

The truth that is variously enacted by such agents is not an idea or a proposition. It is rather a habit of life that simply (!) refuses the totalizing claims of power. The governor, on behalf of the empire, will continue to ask, "What is truth?" And the apostles will continue to give answer, uncommonly unintimidated: "'We must obey God rather than any human authority'" (Acts 5:29).14 — Walter Brueggemann

The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it. — Mike Harding

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it. — Daniel Radcliffe

You stand in a dark room and grow a tree in your chest.
The color pink is your national anthem.
You have fled the burning city, but your pocket smolders.
He bats his eyelids and dust flies.
You are a well trying to quench its own thirst,
a tiger licking its bloody paw. — Karen Finneyfrock

You were a luminescent star in the darkened sky that became my universe. — Truth Devour

Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and our country's national anthem.' This is always an uncomfortable moment for me. While I sat at my laptop, most of the reporters around me stood and put their hands over their hearts. This time instead of just sitting and working, I tweeted what I was feeling: 'Ari_Shapiro: As a reporter I'm torn about joining in the pledge of allegiance/national anthem at rallies. I'm a rally observer, not a participant.' — Ari Shapiro

Gandhi was such an important figure to the pacifists of the '30s, and he was such an extraordinary embodiment of nonviolence, that I thought it was necessary to have him in there. When he would say something about the war, it was to some extent news - and he was sure to have a response that was different from that of other world leaders. — Nicholson Baker

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist. — Jesse Ventura

Despite my repeated attempts, my hands refused to reach out and wrap themselves around Brasti's throat. The — Sebastien De Castell

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there. — David Hayter

For those who believe, no words are necessary. For those who do not believe, no words are possible." - SAINT IGNATIUS — Elisa Romeo