Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Cockburn

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

We're journalists and we just pack it away. You don't get a special badge of courage for losing your home.

A badge is a symbol that you have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to BE PREPARED to give service in it.

This badge is not a reward for something you have done once or for an examination you have passed.

They sure put that fence up in a hurry, ... I have to wear a badge to go from place to place here.

Larry Coker

It is very important. It's something that we like to have and would like to continue. It is a badge of honor. It's something you like to sell. I'll be surprised if we don't have a first-rounder this year.

Ron Glass

Nowadays, we actually wear that as a badge of honor.

That officer in particular is one of the nicest around. He's extremely upset. His badge number is visible and easily identifiable.

I think, in a lot of places, the solar panels are a badge of honor; they're trendy. If you go to Hawaii or Japan, people even install fake solar panels because it's cool and it's popular. And so I think solar panels have gotten a lot more attractive. They're sleek, black, they look good on a roof.

Kathleen Sebelius

But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.

J. K. Rowling

We've been improving it. The badge now read Bighead Boy.

Suzy Menkes

There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.

Every single employee that wears a badge here, that badge become a little soiled on that day.

Paul Broun

Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor.

Lots of people just buy product right off the shelf and stick their badge on it. At the end of the day, they end up with a toaster that looks like a Russian tractor.

From a professional and personal standpoint, Friday will never be the same for me. It was a badge of honor to be on Hal's call list.

For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

Stephen Crane

He wishes that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

Michael Trucco

I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.

She refused to give me her badge number, and she hung up.

Erin Hunter

Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger.

He's an obstinate opportunist. He's become well known for this throughout his career here. He wears it like a badge of honor.

Judging by the vanity plates in California - 'Saving More,' 'Low Mileage' - hybrid is a badge of honor that people want to wear. Hydrogen is the path to the future. But, on the way to hydrogen, hybrid is an alternative.

We now have one, single global design and engineering budget. We've put an end to badge engineering.

That was a pretty easy decision to make. The campaign hat and the new badge would create a distinctive uniform and save money.

For the parade, every veteran will receive a grand marshal badge and be in the parade.

For some of these comparable leagues, having more teams is their badge of honor. But that's not right for us. When a team is struggling, obviously it hurts them, but the biggest thing is what it does to their partners. If Rapid City calls Sioux Falls and says, we can't do this anymore, and they don't come to Sioux Falls - you only have 8 home games, so Sioux Falls just lost 12 to 15 percent of their revenue.

Telly Savalas

I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.

Scott Turow

I think the first serious novel that interested me was The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.

When they practice, our new kids are practicing with some of the best kids in the state of Ohio. Those people get on them and encourage them. It's a badge of honor to run in the front with a group like that.

Douglas Brinkley

Overcoming an illness can be a badge of honor.

Chris Jericho

I've actually been in more Elimination Chamber matches than any other human being on the planet. It really has been a badge of honor for me.

Gloria Reuben

There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official.