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Quotes About Badge

I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living.
~ Lucky Luciano
There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official.
~ Gloria Reuben
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
~ William Shakespeare
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.
~ Hilda Scott
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
~ William Shakespeare
sufferance is the badge" of all who have to deal with the Kremlin.
~ Winston S. Churchill
You're the one with the badge," I admitted, "but I'm the one being haunted by a seven-year-old in a ballerina costume.
~ Linda Lael Miller
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
~ Andrew Motion
Henry III ordained a Statute of Jewry that enforced a number of disciplinary measures, including the compulsory badge of identification. This was a token or tabula of yellow felt, 3 inches by 6 inches (7.5 by 15 centimetres), to be worn on an outer garment; it was to be carried by every Jew over the age of seven years.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Alexei didn't bustle; he wore his madness like a badge.
~ David Gerrold
And virtually every man, woman, and child among them wears that now ubiquitous badge of defiant solidarity, the black-and-white "Where is Lindbergh?" button.
~ Philip Roth
People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I'll have a rose in my teeth," he said. "And a gold badge.
~ John Sandford
Just middle-aged. Ideas used to grab me too. It's not that you get better ideas, the old ones just get tired. After a while you see that even dollars and cents are just an idea. Finally the only thing that masters is putting some turds in the toilet bowl once a day. They stay real, somehow. Somebody came up to me and said, 'I'm God,' I'd say, 'Show me your badge.
~ John Updike
What can I do for you, Detective?' he said cheerily, smiling and nodding at Bailey. What was I, chopped liver? I had a badge too. Maybe I should've shown it to him. Maybe I should've shown him my gun too.
~ Marcia Clark
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.
~ Michael Scheuer
Harry hiked back to Glory, the nearest small town that we had passed through, to talk to the local cops. They were, or they professed to be, sheriff's deputies. I wonder what you have to do to become a cop. I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal. What did it used to be to make people Bankole's age want to trust it. I know what the old books say, but still, I wonder.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The bones of the Kiowa warriors did not lie in the earth but in the stories of their lives, told and retold—their bravery and daring, the death of Britt Johnson and his men, and Cicada, the little girl taken from them by the Indian Agent, Three Spotted's little blue-eyed girl. In his will the Captain asked to be buried with his runner's badge. He had kept it since 1814. He said he had a message to deliver, contents unknown
~ Paulette Jiles