Parades Quotes - Page 6

• Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hero, Dark, Vienna

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Sacrifice, Shade

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.255

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• When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' The feelings of heartfelt gratitude for the supreme sacrifice made by so many cannot be confined to a Memorial Day, a military parade, or a decorated grave.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Memorial Day, Gratitude, Military

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Nov 11, 2014

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• The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

  Robert Southey

  Fields, Clergymen, Pulpit

  Robert Southey (1850). “The Life & Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey: (VIII, 390 p.)”, p.75

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• It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense

  George MacDonald

  War, Men, Past

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• In a recent issue of Parade Magazine when asked for "Advice for a Younger You," Glenn Close responded: "I'd tell myself to listen to my heart. Listen to that little voice that says, 'Mmm, I don't think so.' Because when you override that, you basically override who you are.

  Glenn Close

  Heart, Thinking, Issues

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• I'm pretty darn happy. I really wanted to go to San Diego and play for those offensive masterminds. I'm looking forward to a 15-year career, a couple of trips to the Super Bowl and a parade through downtown San Diego.

  Ryan Leaf

  Couple, Years, Play

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• Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.

  Noah Lukeman

  New York, Children, Black

  Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer'S Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection P”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Religious, Organization, Political

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• Hillary [Clinton] had all these A-listers, well, look at this parade of losers that did that video encouraging electors to not vote for [Donald] Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Video, Looks, Vote

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• Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

  Bo Belinsky

  Easter, War, Eggs

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• The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Doe, Sage

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• Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.

  David B. Rivkin

  Political, Important, Vigor

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• I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

  Victoria Beckham

  Easter, Children, Night

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• I don't think I'm gay. I don't think I'm straight. I think I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

  Margaret Cho

  Gay, Thinking

  "Cho's Getting What She Wants / There's life after `All-American Girl'" by Liz Smith, www.sfgate.com. September 2, 1999.

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• I don't want to be in front of the camera forever. I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever. I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me. I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.

  FKA twigs

  Stars, Sick, Forever

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• The muffled drum's sad roll has beat; The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet; The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground; Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round; The bivouac of the dead.

  Theodore O'Hara

  Tattoo, Loss, Brave

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• Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

  Bernard Levin

  Country, Children, Food

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• In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Military, Army, Men

  T. E. Lawrence (2013). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, p.349, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• But planes land and so do I, and suns rise, melting away the grounds cool protection. I am finally free, if only for this moment. And should that be the case, then know that I am throwing a parade in first class as I speak. Art has again saved my life, my love and me. What next? Who really cares? Certainly a toast will be in order. Make mine a double.

  Andrew McMahon

  Art, Order, Land

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• This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition.

  Amby Burfoot

  Boston, Presidential, Important

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• Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel, you'll find less inconvenience along the way." "It's because of their guns!" declared Mr. Henderson, once more escaping his reverie, bobbing out of it as if to gasp for air. "Concise, my love." Mrs. Henderson gave him a smile. "And correct. Texans are heavily armed and often impatient. They don't need to be transporting arms and gunpowder to create a great nuisance for anyone who stops them, so they tend to be stopped...less often.

  Cherie Priest

  Gun, Air, Texas

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Dreadnought”, p.134, Pan Macmillan

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• There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.

  Louis Armstrong

  Kings, Looks, Mardi Gras

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• There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

  W. H. Auden

  Ends, Novel, Deserve

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• Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

  Zig Ziglar

  Two, Car, Ifs

  Zig Ziglar (2002). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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