Pageant Quotes

67 Pageant quotes by 53 unique authors

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of… — G. M. Trevelyan
My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing… — David Walton
In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age. — Rodney Crowell
It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment… — Steve McFadden
The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one… — Jay Leno
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… — Ambrose Bierce
Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here… — Frederick Lenz
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver… — E. M. Forster
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible. — Zooey Deschanel
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at… — Wallace Stevens
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like… — William Shakespeare
…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living… — John Dryden
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in. — William Shakespeare
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond… — William Shakespeare
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it… — Albert Einstein
Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of… — Sarah Dessen
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school… — Mark Twain
Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a… — Jessica Valenti
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade;… — Greg Iles
India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me. — Joyce Giraud
Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make… — Joyce Giraud
I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world. — Joyce Giraud
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. — Gloria Steinem
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite… — DeWitt Clinton

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