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Quotes About Procession

Heraclius entered Jerusalem on 21 March 630, at the head of a solemn procession
~ Roderick Beaton
The spectators were expressing their sympathy in various ways, when, the officers of law having finished their ceremonial, the cart went on; and Wilhelm, who took a deep interest in the fate of the lovers, hastened forward by a foot path to get some acquaintance with the Amtmann before the procession should arrive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
~ Mark Twain
Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
which would leave the body in its natural state." This it singularly failed to do. From time to time appalling eructations were heard coming from the coffin, and during the lying in state the smell was such that one of the attendant Swiss Guards fainted. Meanwhile, the nose fell off.
~ John Julius Norwich
We (Turkish soldiers) were met by just a few men on horseback in Caucasian dress, like fairy-tale soldiers with silver-plated sabres in their belts. Our small procession seemed to me to be the harbinger of a great liberation, the awakening of the vast land of Turan. It was a new Ergenekon.
~ ?evket Süreyya Aydemir
The Chorus of Eleusinian Initiates lead Dionysus and Aeschylus off in a torchlight procession recalling the inspirational finale of Aeschylus' Oresteia.
~ Aristophanes
There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,—sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all human kind, they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
His funeral procession, said to have been the largest in New York City's history, included more than one hundred thousand participants. Most were devoted readers.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Procession For Ye Bride who Changèd Her Minde. No
~ Sophie Kinsella
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.
~ Mark Twain
We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go - Rank after Rank, with even feet - And uniforms of Snow.
~ Emily
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
~ Mark Twain
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.
~ Mark Twain
And yet, by ingenious contrivance, this gilded minority, instead of being in the tail of the procession where it belonged, was marching head up and banners flying, at the other end of it; had elected itself to be the Nation, and these innumerable clams had permitted it so long that they had come at last to accept it as a truth; and not only that, but to believe it right and as it should be.
~ Mark Twain
The long procession of men flickered before her like faces on cards quickly riffled—blurred, two-dimensional. Only their desire for her mattered.
~ Bel Kaufman
So etwas wie ein ständiges Spurensicherungsteam gibt es übrigens nicht. da die Spurensicherung so teuer ist, bestellt man sie beim Innenministerium immer nur häppchenweise wie beim chinesischen Lieferservice. Aus der prozession von Plastikanzügen zu schließen, die an uns vorüberzog, hatte Stephanopoulos sich das Super-Deluxe-Menü für sechs Personen mit einer extraportion Reis gegönnt. Und ich war dann wohl der Glückskeks.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television; before long, there was this procession of people of all kinds walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.
~ Tom Wolfe
Thomas seems to be implying a threefold, originally Neoplatonic, model that he would have known through the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, comprising (1) God in God-self; (2) the exitus, or procession of creatures from God; and finally (3) the reditus, or the return of creatures to God.
~ Bernard McGinn
We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.
~ Emily Dickinson
No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries.
~ Jack Spicer
Here was Oxford! From side to side the avenue was filled with a dense procession of youths—youths interspersed with maidens whose parasols were as flotsam and jetsam on a seething current of straw hats.
~ Max Beerbohm
Children are easily swayed by religion, which is why it is a good thing that most eventually grow into sense. Chanting monks led the procession, then came children with green boughs, more monks, a group of abbots and bishops, then Steapa and fifty men of the royal guard, who walked immediately in front of Alfred and his guests.
~ Bernard Cornwell
and that touched off something else...old sorrows, good friends gone down into the earth. Sometimes I picture death as a wide stone stair-case, filled with a silent procession of those being led away.
~ Sue Grafton