Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY!
Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Author Nationalities

Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Google Web brainyquote.com   
Definition of Banner
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.

Related Definitions:
And, Any, As, Attached, Banner, Battle, Borne, By, Chief, Cloth, Conspicuous, Crosspiece, Device, Extended, Flag, His, In, Kind, Large, Motto, Of, On, Or, Other, Piece, Pike, Place, Procession, Silk, Some, Spear, Standard, Star-Spangled, Suspended, The, To, Used, With


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

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

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

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

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

Your Favorite Authors
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Alexander Hamilton
Andy Warhol
Aristotle
Barack Obama
Benjamin Franklin
Bob Dylan
Bob Hope
Buddha
C. S. Lewis
Dalai Lama
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Friedrich Nietzsche
George Bernard Shaw
George Washington
Harold S. Geneen
Henry David Thoreau
John F. Kennedy
Leo Tolstoy
Leonardo da Vinci
Lord Byron
Lou Holtz
Malcolm Forbes
Mark Twain
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maya Angelou
Mike Myers
Mohandas Gandhi
Mother Teresa
Muhammad Ali
Nelson Mandela
Noel Redding
Oscar Wilde
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Bach
Rita Rudner
Robert Orben
Ronald Reagan
Samuel Adams
Scott Adams
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Tom Stoppard
Vince Lombardi
Warren Buffett
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill

Quotes    RSS Feeds        Copyright 2008 BrainyMedia.com