Top 100 A Parade Quotes
#1. You can get tested now for early onset Alzheimer's. Hold on a second, could someone hire a marching band, cause I'm so happy I feel like having a parade. You mean I can find out early if I'm going to die of a super horrible disease that there's no cure for? Well, whoopee!
Arj Barker
#2. Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
John Naisbitt
#3. A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.
Rebecca Solnit
#5. Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
Donald T. Regan
#6. I always thought losing my virginity would be a memorable event with fireworks and theme music and maybe a parade afterward. But no.
Chelsea Fine
#7. in a parade, and I'd already seen Ranger naked but he was worth
Janet Evanovich
#8. I'd basically described myself: a quiet, studious bookworm who would go to bed at a decent hour. A non-partier who wouldn't bring a parade of boys through our room, or make it the floor headquarters for beer pong.
Tammara Webber
#9. Not every day is a parade with fireworks, but every breath counts. Life is incredibly fucking hard, rarely fair, and always unpredictable. Most days, surviving is as good as it gets.
Jewel E. Ann
#10. Hey, little kiddie king.. You're having a parade with your servants?
Peach-Pit
#11. Since when do you believe in 'meant to be'?"
"Since fucking ever, Georgie, pay attention. I'm a romantic."
"Just ask the parade of Saturday-morning girls."
"Parades are romantic. Who doesn't love a parade?
Rainbow Rowell
#12. Babe Paley simply never made an empty gesture, and here she was, assembling a parade of them. But her feet, her hands, her mind, her heart, were all restless. Truman.
Melanie Benjamin
#13. So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.
Terry Gross
#14. There's always a parade, Howie. When it's something you can't ever join but only watch, then it's a parade
Dean Koontz
#15. So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one.
Jerry Spinelli
#16. Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
Dean Koontz
#17. If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade.
Mitch Hedberg
#18. Bold and bright, a trilogy of happiness would continue for a summer's duration and into autumn. It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.
Hard times were coming.
Like a parade.
Markus Zusak
#19. Darling, we're going to have a baby again,' she would say to her husband.
I haven't the time,' Lieutenant Scheisskopf would grumble petulantly. 'Don't you know there's a parade going on?
Joseph Heller
#20. If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.
Sally Stanford
#21. It was a good day for a parade, sunny and unseasonably warm, the sky a Sunday school cartoon of heaven.
Tom Perrotta
#22. Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party.
Wanda Sykes
#23. We Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.
Gene Tierney
#24. Anywhere the devout gather to worship, there will always be a parade.
David Ebershoff
#25. Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.
Bo Belinsky
#26. The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.
Brandon Mull
#27. She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.
Milan Kundera
#28. I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.
Star Jones
#29. Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans.
Marina Warner
#31. We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.
Greg Giraldo
#32. The more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create.
Julia Child
#33. Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.
William, Saroyan
#34. Every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness.
John Steinbeck
#35. Life is really a travesty of will: it is a parade of learning how to lose people and improve at feigning indifference.
I suspect I shall always fail at this, and fail miserably. I do not know whether that is winning at life or failing at happiness.
Michelle Franklin
#36. Three particular T-shirts with vulgar slang written on them that made the vein in his forehead poke out. It was a cute little vein and I grew fond of seeing it's public appearance while I walked behind him like a parade of humiliation.
Dannika Dark
#37. You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.
Frida Kahlo
#38. Every day brings a new memory of something we did a year ago. A parade of unhappy anniversaries.
Jerry Spinelli
#39. There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.
Irving Kristol
#40. Damen had half expected a gaudy parade costume, but Laurent had always defined himself against the opulence of the court. And he did not need gilt to be recognised under a parade standard, only the uncovered bright of his hair.
C.S. Pacat
#41. I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
Georges Simenon
#42. Humanity is a parade of fools and I'm at the front, twirling a baton
Dean Koontz
#43. The Trevanian Buff is a strange and wonderful creature: an outsider, a natural elitist, not so much a cynic as an idealist mugged by reality, not just one of those who march to a different drummer, but the solo drummer in a parade of one.
Trevanian
#44. 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
#45. A parade looks like a bunch of people are excited about being in traffic.
Demetri Martin
#46. [The main road was] now teeming with people carrying torches, pitchforks, and rakes, and one very confused man who apparently had mistaken the mob for a parade and was marching around with a Swedish flag.
Cuthbert Soup
#47. Cadavers' intestines hanging like a parade streamers off the sides of tables, skulls bobbing in boiling pots, organs strewn on the floor being eaten by dogs ...
Mary Roach
#49. I had come looking for a parade, for a military review of champions marching in ranks. Instead I was left with a brawl of ancestors, a herd of dissenters, sometimes marching together but just as often marching away from each other.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#50. Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade
Chris Rock
#51. Scientific progress isn't a parade of miraculously wrong theories - it's an optimistic snowball, gathering the structure of reality as it rolls.
Amanda Gefter
#52. 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
#53. Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
Robert Breault
#54. A chill crawls up Miriam's spine. A parade of baby spiders.
Chuck Wendig
#55. Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh.
Richard House
#56. What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?
Joe Abercrombie
#57. Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
Christopher Morley
#58. I just got back from New York. You ever been there? There was a big gay parade going on there when I was there, and I never been to one of them, and I like a parade. I always like a parade. So, I go there, and it turns out, it's just a bunch of gay guys.
Norm MacDonald
#59. A man who could set you on fire just by looking at you was a terrifying thing to think about. Dress that same man up in something out of a parade and call him the Crimson Phoenix, and he was something much less threatening: a celebrity.
Kristen Brand
#60. While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.
Allen West
#61. Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they have finished learning, that is when bitterness and disappointment can set in, as that person will wake up everyday wondering when someone is going to throw a parade in their honour for being so smart.
Nick Offerman
#62. You can't help yourself, can you? You think the only thing to do with a parade is rain on it. Some people know to enjoy the parade because, dude, the rain always comes back.
Karen Marie Moning
#63. How do you not love a place where the faded beads from a parade six years before still hang in the branches of the live oak trees.
Rick Bragg
#64. Before the final rat has eaten the last gram of you, Rapture will have returned. I will lead a parade. "Who was that," they'll say, as they point to the sad shape hanging on my wall, "who was that?
Andrew Ryan
#65. War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
Amy Goodman
#66. Maybe there are stories, even, like solitaire or canasta; they are shuffled and dealt, then they do or they do not come out. Or the deck falls on the floor. Or a piece of country music, a quartet, a parade, the flag - all the things one ought by now to be too old for - touch, whatever it is.
Renata Adler
#67. Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.
Donna VanLiere
#68. We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
Richard Brautigan
#69. The concierge was a snapper who was over the hill and down a disused mine-shaft. Her hair was every bit as natural as a parade goose-stepping down the Wilhelmstrasse, and she'd evidently been wearing a boxing-glove when she's applied the crimson lipstick to her paperclip of a mouth.
Philip Kerr
#70. Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#71. Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.
Raymond E. Feist
#72. In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.
Thomas Frank
#73. Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade
Gerard Way
#74. I passed what I thought was a Halloween parade, which was disorienting since I was fairly sure this was May. When I stopped on the corner of Sixteenth Street and made a closer inspection it turned out to be something called a "Gay Pride Parade," which made my stomach turn.
Bret Easton Ellis
#75. Guess there is a war on between them and us. But we never do anything about holding up our side of the war, except to keep our parade sites and our storage centers secret and to get out of bodies every time there's an air raid or the enemy fires a rocket or something.
Kurt Vonnegut
#76. The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.
Neal A. Maxwell
#77. Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.
Dan Bejar
#78. Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.
Kofi Annan
#79. I also knew that I was number one on the Yankees Cap hit parade. That settled me down. There's nothing like immident death to sharpen a guy's outlook.
Jim Stewart
#80. I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.
Alan Moore
#81. As boys going to sea immediately become nautical in speech, walk as if they already had their "sea legs" on, and shiver their timbers on all possible occasions, so I turned military at once, called my dinner my rations, saluted all new comers, and ordered a dress parade that very afternoon.
Louisa May Alcott
#82. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
William Faulkner
#83. I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed.
Hedi Slimane
#84. If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.
Hannah More
#85. We don't screw up by saying yes to the wrong things; we screw up by letting all the floats in the parade pass us by and never jumping on one of them for a ride to the end.
Annie F. Downs
#86. Rang in my ears like Easter morning churchbells in Rome, rumble from an unmuffled Harley, fireworks shells exploding over a Fourth-of-July parade.
Dennis Vickers
#87. It was a perfect title, in that it crystallized the article's niggling mindlessness, its funeral parade of yawn-enforcing facts, the pseudo-light it threw upon non-problems.
Kingsley Amis
#88. I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.
FKA Twigs
#89. Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.
Zig Ziglar
#90. If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade ... a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they're easy to absorb.
William J. Clinton
#91. The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.
George C. Scott
#92. To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him.
Tom Stoppard
#93. You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.
Catherynne M Valente
#94. There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
Beth Ditto
#95. No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.
Robert Breault
#96. Let us have gardens, then, and other public places where we may see our friends, and parade our vanities, if you will, before the eyes of the world. Did you ever know anyone who was not delighted with a garden? - John Sanderson
David McCullough
#97. By no means was crazy unique to the South,but it sure did love to parade it around on the front porch, give it a drink and welcome the world to stare.
Robert Reeves
#98. (I remember with gratitude the banner carried by some very old and bawdy women who led the parade while I was a student: hardly a man is now alive, who remembers the girls of '95.)
Gloria Steinem
#99. That's it, said Cavuto. You're too much of a nerd to be gay. I'm contacting the committee. They'll revoke your rainbow flag and you will not be permitted anywhere near the parade.
Christopher Moore
#100. If philosophy is mountain climbing
then literature is an anti-gravity parade
I love thee like a leper colony
loves to make a trade
Carl-John X. Veraja
