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Quotes About Badge

Just wanted for questioning, but shoot on sight if your badge ends in an even number, or if you know somebody whose badge does.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
The term "bear," according to Noah Webster, meant "to carry" or "to wear; to bear as a mark of authority or distinction; as, to bear a sword, a badge, a name; to bear arms in a coat.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
It always embarrassed Samuel Vimes when civilians tried to speak to him in what they thought was "policeman." If it came to that, he hated thinking of them as civilians. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.
~ Terry Pratchett
Everyone knows what Kenny Dalglish means to Liverpool: he is probably the badge on the shirt.
~ Pepe Reina
I don't necessarily like the things footballers do. All these kissing the badge, just doing it for the clout.
~ Micah Richards
Work - the ultimate badge of health.
~ Ian Mcewan
Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. We
~ Ian Mcewan
In war time women turn to red swivel-up scarlet and carmine not in solidarity with spilt blood but as a badge of beating hearts.
~ butt maggie
In conflict zones in particular, we need personnel who wear the badge of the United States, are a part of our official military command, and are always held accountable for their actions.
~ Jan Schakowsky
Even in the news division of Fox - which I want to make very clear and I have from the very beginning - I am not a journalist. In fact, I wear that as a badge of honor.
~ Glenn Beck
Assaulting an officer will earn you one to five, Roarke. That's in a cage, not cushy home detention. You're not wearing your badge. Or anything else, for that matter. He gave her a friendly nip on the chin. Be sure to put that in your report.
~ J.D. Robb
There's nobody on the job, nobody with a badge I respect more than you. - Eve You never were a rookie, he told her in a voice roughened with emotion. So I saw good, solid cop the minute I laid eyes on you. I gave you a hell of a foundation, kid, a lot of seasoning and pushed you hard because I knew you could take it. You put yourself here. And I'm proud. - Feeney
~ J.D. Robb
Likely both. If you're going to bust them, I'll wait." "Only take a minute." She stepped to the curb, shouted over the dented hood of an ancient Mini, "Hey!" And waved her badge in the air. Both bulky dealer and skinny junkie pounded sidewalk in opposite directions.
~ J.D. Robb
He barely scraped his PhD, as I recall. Not one college wanted him for post-doctoral work. Yet he wears that badge of academic failure as his name. Do you really feel the need to parade your ignorance, Doctor?
~ Lance Parkin
The second crusade was there arranged, and the Templars, with the sanction of the Pope, assumed the blood-red cross, the symbol of martyrdom, as the distinguishing badge of the order, which was appointed to be worn on their habits and mantles on the left side of the breast over the heart, whence they came afterwards to be known by the name of the Red Friars and the Red Cross Knights.
~ Charles G. Addison
Smarter viewers encouraged smarter culture. Smarter culture encouraged smarter viewers. For Generations X and Y, this development had become a badge of pride. Being good at popular culture became a generational marker. For boomers, popular culture might have been a guilty pleasure. For younger generations, it was a rich, more complicated joy.
~ Grant McCracken
Those who wish to gain dignity in the eyes of the world's intellectuals by wearing the badge of "neutrality" only do so at the expense of refusing to be set apart by God's truth.
~ Greg L. Bahnsen
I hate this guy," Ari muttered, keeping his head down "There's a club," I told him. "The Haters of ter Borcht Club. Have you gotten your badge yet?
~ James Patterson
Davos is probably the world's most elite society, but it dresses itself up as a non-elite event. Don't be fooled. You must wear a specially coloured badge, which shrieks your status to others.
~ Richard Quest
Indeed, ignorance has become hip, with some Americans now wearing their rejection of expert advice as a badge of cultural sophistication.
~ Thomas M. Nichols
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
~ Thomas Paine
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.
~ Kathleen Sebelius
Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it's time to show the badge, drag someone downtown, and sit across from him in an interrogation cell and tell him how fucked he is now.
~ Charlie Huston
It was a Geek Squad badge from Best Buy.
~ Janet Evanovich