George M. Cohan quotes

View Quote I guess the first thing I ever had my fist on was the American flag. I hitched my wagon to thirty-eight stars. And thirteen stripes. You know, I was six or seven years old before I realized they weren't celebrating my birthday on the Fourth of July.

View Quote My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.

View Quote Note: ranked #97 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

View Quote It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us.