Marching Quotes

157 quotes by 145 authors

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders. — Noam Chomsky
Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I… — Dorothy Parker
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. — Michael Crichton
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician â€“ the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens… — Anne Lamott
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. — Otto von Bismarck
I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were.… — Rodman Philbrick
In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came… — Andy Andrews
Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant about the sound… — Terry Pratchett
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to… — Robert Lowell
He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Iâ€™ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life. — Leonard Cohen
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent… — Aldous Huxley
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for… — Winston Churchill
REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band. — Demetri Martin
Giving in to a shrill instinct, she ran around the side of the building. Butch was marching toward his car as if he were carrying… — J R Ward
-â€œSay no more,â€ Leif interrupted. â€œI understand. I will simply have to kill them all myself.â€ -"There he goes again. Iâ€™m telling you, Danny Elfman… — Kevin Hearne
When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely… — Jay-Z
There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins. — Terry Pratchett
There came a time in everyoneâ€™s life when they realized that in spite of how hard theyâ€™d been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there… — J R Ward
He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is. — Ann Brashares

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145 authors contributed a total of 157 Marching Quotes, led by these top contributors: