Quotes of Parade - somelinesforyou

“ Stalinist oppression on the march. ”

- Joseph Stalin

“ There it stands ablaze, like a slab of fire, with its parade of white flagstaffs gleaming in the street light, and the humped black limousines patient at the door. ”

- James Morris

“ Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up. ”

- Donald T. Regan

“ Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham. ”

- John Lydon Rotten

“ The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ The ides of March are come. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The whole past is the procession of the present. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ A torchlight procession marching down your throat. ”

- John Louis O’Sullivan

“ There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle, it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears. ”

- Frances Rodman

“ The march of intellect. ”

- Robert Southey

“ Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ The butler entered the room, a solemn procession of one. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse

“ It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner. ”

- Vernon A. Walters

“ The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The [Academy Awards] ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. ”

- George C. Scott

“ One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade. ”

- Irving Berlin

“ If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. ”

- Sally Stanford

“ Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire. ”

- George W. Crane

“ Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. ”

- John Naisbitt

“ And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ”

- Jerry Chin

“ People start parades — politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading. ”

- Dana Gillman Rinehart

“ Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words. ”

- Edwin H. Stuart

“ War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. ”

- Amy Goodman

“ Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere. ”

- Henry Wade

“ Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less… ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade. The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet- and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them… ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ”

- James Fenimore Cooper
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