Banner
A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.
Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.
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Banner Quotations
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
Kingsley Amis
As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.
Dennis Farina
So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.
Cliff Richard
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
Henry Cabot Lodge
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.
Dave Van Ronk
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
Bill Veeck
We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
Frederica Montseny
When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
Carla Bley
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
Franz von Papen
I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.
Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz
There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.
Michael Steele
I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for out independence.
John B. Hood
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
Abdolkarim Soroush
We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.
Satish Kumar
It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.
Douglas Reed
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Banner Translations
banner in Afrikaans is vlag
banner in Danish is flag
banner in Dutch is vaan, dundoek, vlag
banner in Finnish is lippu
banner in German is Transparent, Banner, Banner
banner in Italian is bandiera
banner in Latin is vexillum
banner in Norwegian is flagg
banner in Portuguese is bandeira
banner in Spanish is bandera, estandarte
banner in Swedish is baner, fana
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