Most of the teams proverb

 Most of the teams are really starting to grasp the concept of performance on demand rather than just showing up. I hope Canadians understand this is about performance. It's about carrying the Canadian flag on a bigger playing field and not just the symbolic carrying of the flag in the opening ceremony.

 I was a little disappointed but hopefully they will raise the Canadian flag, not the American flag (at the official medal ceremony).

 When he was our president, he wanted us to show our patriotism. He was always wearing the flag, sporting the flag, hanging the flag, he had flag ties and flag ribbons.

 I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the past 16 days we've had some outstanding performances by Canadian athletes and it is truly overwhelming to be selected as the flag bearer amidst the most successful Canadian Olympic Winter Games team ever.

 In the last couple of years, England has had a real problem with American culture. Looking back, people were looking to vent. They were going to vent to anybody they felt was carrying the American flag. And I carry the flag. But I carry it musically.

 She was the true cause carrying the flag. She's something else.

 When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
  Sinclair Lewis

 Opportunities like this can be few and far between. So you realize that you are sort of out there carrying the flag for the next generation.

 He should still be carrying this country's flag -- not coming out of the embassy wrapped in one,

 I've told my Muslim friends to come out carrying the American flag and parade in the streets to denounce terrorism.

 At the end of the day, the three best mogul skiers ended up on the podium. I'm happy for him, regardless of what flag he's carrying, and I'm extremely proud of the way our guys performed.

 The demand is still there for the old Georgia flag (with the Confederate Stars and Bars). But since Tuesday, anybody who thinks about anything other than the American flag or the USA is crazy.

 This is emotional, and I'm truly speechless, ... I was expecting to be a follower tomorrow night, just to go wherever I was pointed, and now I'm carrying the flag. It's a tremendous honor and I thank my fellow Olympians for thinking of me.
  Mia Hamm

 It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable, that's for sure. I can't tell people what flag to fly. I can tell you the flag we get behind, it's the American flag.

 "We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag in.

- I claim India for Britain!

They go,

- You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!

- Do you have a flag?

- We don't need a bloody flag! It's our country, you bastards!

- No flag, no country, you can't have one! That's the rules that I've just made up, and I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association."
  Eddie Izzard


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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.


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Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
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