Flagpoles – Quotes

I see that the

I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down. Douglas MacArthur

I said I’m going

I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me. Babe Ruth

Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn’t exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn’t mean to, … Read more

Every family has a

Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.
A.M. Homes