Quotes About Parade

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

Humanity is a parade of fools and I'm at the front, twirling a baton

Although my perception might have been distorted by melancholy, it seemed to me that most of those people were in pairs, the larger percentage of them holding hands, as if they were extras in a movie of high romance, accessorizing a scene for which the director's purpose might have been to say that life was a parade lived two-by-two, as it had been since before Noah's fabled ark and as it would be always.

Harold's Bow and Food Bowl bowl bowl bowl Food food food food The miracle of the heavenly restaurant I mouth this great dark sad evening Suddenly they come for me in a limousine How could I have believed I was vanquished I never lay slain I am the victor this parade is for me Now they have led me to the doors of God Long ago and forever I was in this place on the other side of eating where I am full and the empty bowl is beautiful -- from Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs

I never even went to Jekyll & Hyde's restaurant. I loved the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, though.

The near enemy. It's a psychological concept. Two emotions that look the same but are actually opposites. The one parades as the other, is mistaken for the other, but one is healthy and the other's sick, twisted.

The great parade of life.' Gamache jumped in to stop the parade.

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time, a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summers magic.

The history of education is a seemingly endless parade of "new ideas" that are actually old ideas renamed.

The dead have come to take the living. The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays the hurdy-gurdy.

We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go-- Rank after Rank, with even feet-- And uniforms of Snow. -Emily Dickinson

Let's not get ahead of ourselves There's no need for rain It's our own parade Let's not be afraid of our reflections It's not only you you're looking at now

Such afternoons the buses are crowded into line like elephants in a circusparade. Morningside Heights to Washington Square, Penn Station to Grant's Tomb. Parlorsnakes and flappers joggle hugging downtown uptown, hug joggling gray square after gray square, until they see the new moon giggling over Weehawken and feel the gusty wind of a dead Sunday blowing dust in their faces, dust of a typsy twilight.

There followed fifty or so actors of both sexes made up as Brazilian natives, who paraded naked through the streets

every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness.

And Granma looked straight ahead, proudly, for she was on show now.

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

I would parade you in the hall of the monarchs of the ocean if you could breathe water.

Remember... people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

Am I gay, am I straight? No, I'm just slutty. So, where's my parade? What about slut pride.

No matter how many wrong turns we've taken and no matter how many detours we've been down, it's God's grace that gets us back onto the parade route.

Rubio became just another dispiriting casualty of Trump's moral slaughter of the Republican Party. He was another in the parade of leaders willing to discard every principle they once held for the purpose of staying in office.