Badge Quotations

I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.

Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor.

The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.

There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.

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.

There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official.

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

I think, in a lot of places, the solar panels are a badge of honor; they're trendy. If you go to Hawaii or Japan, people even install fake solar panels because it's cool and it's popular. And so I think solar panels have gotten a lot more attractive. They're sleek, black, they look good on a roof.

I've actually been in more Elimination Chamber matches than any other human being on the planet. It really has been a badge of honor for me.

The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power - and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor.

The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard.

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

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.

Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.

Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man.

We're journalists and we just pack it away. You don't get a special badge of courage for losing your home.

We've been improving it. The badge now read Bighead Boy.

Let's say a young boy is going for a CAT scan. First, he gets to preview various animation themes. He chooses his favorite and takes a holographic RFID badge with a Philips ICODE chip. When he goes into the examination room, he waves the badge at the scanning equipment, and the walls and ceiling come to life with animations, accompanied by music and other sounds. It keeps him relaxed and it's a great way to give him instructions. When it's time for him to hold his breath, he sees a cartoon character holding his own breath!

Lots of people just buy product right off the shelf and stick their badge on it. At the end of the day, they end up with a toaster that looks like a Russian tractor.

She refused to give me her badge number, and she hung up.

I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.

I was raised with the idea that the word hate is extremely strong. So it might be OK to hate Adolf Hitler. It's OK to hate Satan. These are acceptable figures to whom the word hate can apply. I would proudly wear the badge of hater of many of Bush's policies. But the man? I don't like him, but hate him?

I did go through his pockets and I did not find any identification. There is a badge above his shirt pocket but it was corroded.

From a professional and personal standpoint, Friday will never be the same for me. It was a badge of honor to be on Hal's call list.

For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

He wishes that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

When they practice, our new kids are practicing with some of the best kids in the state of Ohio. Those people get on them and encourage them. It's a badge of honor to run in the front with a group like that.

I think the first serious novel that interested me was The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.

Overcoming an illness can be a badge of honor.

Judging by the vanity plates in California - 'Saving More,' 'Low Mileage' - hybrid is a badge of honor that people want to wear. Hydrogen is the path to the future. But, on the way to hydrogen, hybrid is an alternative.

We now have one, single global design and engineering budget. We've put an end to badge engineering.

That was a pretty easy decision to make. The campaign hat and the new badge would create a distinctive uniform and save money.

The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement, that publication's brand will be weak. A good publication is a convener and an arbiter - it expresses a core narrative that becomes a badge of sorts for its readership.

We are sending out the renewal in normal non-see through envelopes. The decals only contain the month and year numbers. You would still need an initial badge to have access to the base with your car. We don't anticipate any problems with the new system.

Every single employee that wears a badge here, that badge become a little soiled on that day.

Each badge is coded with (a) security pass -- Level 5 takes you anywhere in (the) building you want to go.

Running 26 miles is quite a commitment. Just to be able to say that your body can handle that kind of abuse is a badge of honor. I thought the club was a wonderful idea. It's a good way for the students to channel their energies, and running is a lifelong activity they can do forever.

Nowadays, we actually wear that as a badge of honor.

A vehicle, concept or not, wouldn't be worthy of a Scion badge without allowing room for personalization.

That's not a badge of honor I enjoy, ... I never had malicious intent. I was never trying to hurt anyone or damage anything.

That officer in particular is one of the nicest around. He's extremely upset. His badge number is visible and easily identifiable.

This badge is not a reward for something you have done once or for an examination you have passed.

They were concerned about my impersonating an officer. They asked if I had a badge or a gun, ... They executed a search warrant on the vehicle and didn't find anything. They came to my house, didn't find anything in the house.

They're used to the Valley atmosphere and they have an interest in recreation. It's something that's learned and it's a badge of honor.

They sure put that fence up in a hurry, ... I have to wear a badge to go from place to place here.

There's an active movement to turn it into a badge of honor,

A badge is a symbol that you have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to BE PREPARED to give service in it.

It is very important. It's something that we like to have and would like to continue. It is a badge of honor. It's something you like to sell. I'll be surprised if we don't have a first-rounder this year.

I told them my concerns of how Kyle walked out of the school unnoticed and how my friend came by and picked up my other two children (last week) when (my friend) was not on the list (of those authorized to do so). Too many times people are walking the hall with no visitor's badge on, and it could be anybody walking off the street.

It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.

It's like trying to stop the ocean. For instance, I stand next to you at a conference, and you have a badge on, and I look you up in Big Yellow. Some of it is totally serendipitous.

You tell people, 'I'm an orange badge at Microsoft,' and pretty much everybody in the tech industry knows exactly what that means. It's practically a subculture in Seattle.

Every badge you earn is tied up to your motto.

That's a badge of honor for our coaching staff. From six minutes on, I thought we played well defensively and showed good character on our part.

The badge of the violent is his weapon, spear, sword or rifle. God is the shield of the non-violent.

In a film called 'Senna,' the clue is in the title, and we have a Brazilian badge on our sleeve as we were making it. We were making it from Senna's point of view, with Senna narrating it.

He's an obstinate opportunist. He's become well known for this throughout his career here. He wears it like a badge of honor.

For the parade, every veteran will receive a grand marshal badge and be in the parade.

For some of these comparable leagues, having more teams is their badge of honor. But that's not right for us. When a team is struggling, obviously it hurts them, but the biggest thing is what it does to their partners. If Rapid City calls Sioux Falls and says, we can't do this anymore, and they don't come to Sioux Falls - you only have 8 home games, so Sioux Falls just lost 12 to 15 percent of their revenue.

You wear the badge to let people know that you are prepared and willing to be called on because you are a Girl Scout.

The driver of the Jeep slowed down and Thomason got out of his car with his gun and showed the driver his badge and demanded that he step out of the Jeep.

Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.