Procession Quotes

78 quotes by 70 authors

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. — Mark Twain
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. — Mark Twain
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… — Tom Wolfe
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about. — James A. Baldwin
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by… — Tom Stoppard
From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn… — Sherwood Anderson
Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick… — W. Somerset Maugham
A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his… — Guy Davenport
Talkâ€”half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,… — Anais Nin
Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully… — Erich Maria Remarque
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them… — Virginia Woolf
Here too itâ€™s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror showâ€¦… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I sat in the dark and thought: Thereâ€™s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones. — Neil Gaiman
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even… — Desmond Tutu
We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others… — Ernest Becker
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of lifeâ€™s procession that marches in majesty and proud… — Khalil Gibran
My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money,… — Abraham Verghese
The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a… — Kenneth Grahame

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