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Quotes About Parade

after Fourth of July celebrations
~ Mike Riley
beauty is a world betrayed. The only way we can encounter it is if its persecutors have overlooked it somewere. Beauty hides behind the scenes of the May Day parade. If we want to find it, we must demolish the scenery.
~ Milan Kundera
semantic river: each time the same object would give rise to a new meaning, though all former meanings would resonate (like an echo, like a parade of echoes) together with the new one. Each new experience would resound, each time enriching the the harmony.
~ Milan Kundera
each time the same object would give rise to a new meaning, though all former meanings would resonate (like an echo, like a parade of echoes) together with the new one. Each new experience would resound, each time enriching the harmony.
~ Milan Kundera
The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.
~ Brandon Mull
I passed what I thought was a Halloween parade, which was disorienting since I was fairly sure this was May. When I stopped on the corner of Sixteenth Street and made a closer inspection it turned out to be something called a "Gay Pride Parade," which made my stomach turn.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
You can't help yourself, can you? You think the only thing to do with a parade is rain on it. Some people know to enjoy the parade because, dude, the rain always comes back.
~ Karen Marie Moning
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
~ G. K. Chesterton
It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.
~ Henry Lawson
Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade
~ Chris Rock
Fidel Castro's opinion about Reagan offered right before the election: "We sometimes have the feeling that we are living in the time preceding the election of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany." Libya's Kaddafi was not to be left out of the parade, saying, "Reagan is Hitler number 2!" (This is admittedly confusing, since most radical Arab leaders like Hitler.)
~ Steven F. Hayward
California was a great place to get over mysticism in the 1960s and 1970s. Such an endless parade of gurus and mystics came through, peddling their wares, that they canceled each other out. They couldn't compete with the drugs, and the drugs canceled each other out as well. Fervent visions, shared to excess, became clanking clichés. All that was left was daily reality, with its endless negotiation, devoid of absolutes, but alive with surprises.
~ Stewart Brand
Miserable people with miserable lives, buggering about in a miserable, pointless parade of misery.
~ Stuart MacBride
be a wonderful showcase
~ Stuart Woods
People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relationships around like an accessory, and others like to keep it separate from business and commerce. It's perfectly fine to say, 'I actually don't want to talk about my love because that's not part of the fantasy world I created in commerce.'
~ RuPaul
Witnesses parade in, there is the travesty of a trial, and Ercole meets his end in a refreshingly simple mass stabbing.
~ Thomas Pynchon
O que você mentir eu acredito, eu disse, que nem marcha antiga de Carnaval.
~ Caio Fernando Abreu
Every evening for weeks, Amina and the several other Ethiopians who lived in the building by then crowded into my flat to watch in horror as a parade of bodies on the verge of crumbling into dust crawled across the screen. We were sickened with ourselves for being riveted by the spectacle of this death march. We were ashes to ashes fascinated by this movement, heaven bound invariably, for there is no hell anymore when it has arrived here on earth.
~ Camilla Gibb
I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade. The
~ Gene Kranz
A torch-light procession marching down your throat.
~ John L. O'Sullivan
See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums!
~ Thomas Morell
According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
~ Brendan I. Koerner
Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.
~ William Saroyan
We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.