Pageant Quotes

67 quotes by 57 authors

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere. — Diane Ackerman
The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote. — Susan Faludi
Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our… — Ambrose Bierce
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant. — Washington Irving
The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack,… — Kevin Hart
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at… — William Hazlitt
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily… — Clay Aiken
Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side. — Maria Menounos
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not… — Jude Law
Now, how can I be anti-woman? I even judged the Miss America pageant. — Rush Limbaugh
All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere. — Thomas Campion
No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It… — Peter J. McGuire
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected. — Bob Barker
They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do… — Leonard Horn
When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the… — Greg Graffin
There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain… — Josiah Wedgwood
The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to… — Frederick Lenz
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was… — Donna Rice Hughes

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