Parades Quotes

• And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Rain

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

  Mike Ditka

  Football, Nfl, Watches

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

  Robert Breault

  Distance, Opportunity, Next

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

  William Battie

  Running, Fashion, Style

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• We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Important, Want, Achieve

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.212, Beacon Press

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• Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

  John Naisbitt

  Leadership, Findings, Inspiring Leader

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• Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

  Kim Kardashian

  Jealousy, Hater, Rain

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• You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

  Erma Bombeck

  4th Of July, Food, Patriotic

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• Parades are man's attempt to make traffic exciting.

  Demetri Martin

  Men, Traffic, Exciting

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• A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Journey, Audience, Performances

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.165, Penguin

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• Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

  Will Rogers

  People, Nuisance, Causes

  Will Rogers (1974). “The Illiterate Digest”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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

  Merlin Mann

  Elephants, Guy, Brooms

  Twitter post from Apr 20, 2010

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• The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Long, Feelings

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• The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, Army, Agriculture

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• When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

  Richard Rohr

  Humanity, Joining, Failing

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.73, John Wiley & Sons

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• Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Children, Hate

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

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• Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

  Ben Nicholas

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

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• The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.

  Laurence Sterne

  Kindness, Voice, Looks

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• Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

  Bette Midler

  Scare, Groups, Want

  Bette Midler (1980). “A View from a Broad”, Simon & Schuster

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• I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

  Georges Simenon

  Men, Saws, Young

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

  Demetri Martin

  People, Looks, Excited

  Twitter post from Oct 17, 2013

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• Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Mind, Dresses

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• For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mind, Liberty, Libertarian

  Noam Chomsky (1993). “Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture”, p.114, South End Press

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• Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

  Dean Koontz

  Humanity, Fool, Twirling

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.73, Bantam

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• The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Power, Broken

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