Parades Quotes · Page 2

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

— Robert Breault

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

— Irving Kristol

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

— Mike Ditka

Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.

— William Battie

YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.

— Sathya Sai Baba

I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.

— Ruby Dee

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

— Robert Southey

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.

— Lance Bass

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me,…

— Robbie Fowler

Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began…

— Adam Davidson

There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come…

— Louis Armstrong

Yesterday, after the Thanksgiving parade, Donald Trump appeared at Macy's to promote his new line of fragrances and business suits. Unfortunately, there…

— Conan O'Brien

“Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up ["East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees," Metropolis , March 2006, p73] ”

— Veronique Vienne

Hillary [Clinton] had all these A-listers, well, look at this parade of losers that did that video encouraging electors to not vote…

— Rush Limbaugh

I've been in some small parades where they have turned down some side street and a few people are sitting on the…

— Judy Norton

What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as…

— Joe Abercrombie

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most…

— James Branch Cabell

If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish…

— Du Mu

I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate…

— Jacki Weaver

My father owned a music store when I was growing up in Rock Falls, Illinois. He could play all the instruments, which…

— Louie Bellson

One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even…

— Stephen Marche

For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession…

— Anonymous

It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to…

— David Frum

All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in…

— George Orwell

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

— Elliott Smith

“Parades ain't for the people on the floats, they're for the ones watching it go by.”

— Alex Bledsoe

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

— Bob Dylan

Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

— Zig Ziglar

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

— Orville Dewey

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

— Laura Kightlinger

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

— Merlin Mann

If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

— Sally Stanford

A parade looks like a bunch of people are excited about being in traffic.

— Demetri Martin

I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?

— Janelle Monae

Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.

— Laozi

If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.

— Charles Saatchi

I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I've been to a few down in Miami Beach, if…

— Elvis Duran

You aren’t advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade.

— David Ogilvy