Quotes of Procession - somelinesforyou

“ A torchlight procession marching down your throat. ”

- John Louis O’Sullivan

“ Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Some people never head a procession until they're dead. ”

- Unknown

“ The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Mark Twain

“ Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. ”

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“ The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ The trouble with many of us is that we just slide along in life. If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two-week vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ”

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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