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Quotes About Parade

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.
~ Ray Bradbury
I remembered five o'clock in the morning, predawn arrivals of Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and all the animals parading by before sunrise, heading for the empty meadows where the great tents would rise like incredible mushrooms.
~ Ray Bradbury
Kitaplar, tören alay? büyük bir gürültü içinde ilerlerken, Sezar'?n kula??na 'Unutma, Sezar, sen de ölümlüsün' diyen pretoryen muhaf?zlard?r.
~ Ray Bradbury
Darling, we're going to have a baby again,' she would say to her husband. I haven't the time,' Lieutenant Scheisskopf would grumble petulantly. 'Don't you know there's a parade going on?
~ Joseph Heller
Why don't you ever whip me? she pouted one night. Because I haven't the time, he snapped at her impatiently. I haven't the time. Don't you know there's a parade going on?
~ Joseph Heller
I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
from the barracks burst bandsmen in their hundreds. Each was armed, as I had seen before, but now some were quite more armed than others.
~ Dave Stone
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
I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!
~ Rodney Atkins
On 19 November, the Maharaja and his army entered Peshawar. The next day he rode on an elephant through its bazaars—'the first time in 700 years that the city saw an Indian conqueror ride through its streets'.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.
~ Rebecca Solnit
We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
~ Richard Brautigan
Plus, falling property values now ride through the trees like an odorless, colorless mist settling through the still air where all breathe it in, all sense it, though our new amenities—the new police cruisers, the new crosswalks, the trimmed tree branches, the buried electric, the refurbished band shell, the plans for the 4th of July parade—do what they civically can to ease our minds off worrying
~ Richard Ford
Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.
~ Will Rogers
I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
~ Martha Plimpton
With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools' Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils' Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade.
~ Oscar Wilde
Its easy to be a show off, but it is hard to know how to show it off.
~ Daniel Kormendy
There is two things that tickle the fancy of our citizens, one is let him act on a committee, and the other is promise him to let him walk in a parade. What America needs is to get more mileage out of our parades.
~ Will Rogers
Anywhere the devout gather to worship, there will always be a parade.
~ David Ebershoff
On the contrary, the world of hunter-gatherers as it existed before the coming of agriculture was one of bold social experiments, resembling a carnival parade of political forms, far more than it does the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory.
~ David Graeber
They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.
~ Conan O'Brien
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."
~ Ambrose Bierce
If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade.
~ Mitch Hedberg
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton