Top 100 Parade Quotes
#1. I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. 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
#3. I'm very pro-Israel. In fact, I was the head of the Israeli Day Parade a number of years ago, I did a commercial for [Benjamin] Netanyahu when he was getting elected, he asked me to do a commercial for him, I did a commercial for him.
Donald Trump
#4. Humanity is a parade of fools and I'm at the front, twirling a baton
Dean Koontz
#5. She settled back in the chair and draped one leg casually over the other, her hands coming to rest together on her knee.
"Arrest me. Torture me. Parade me about in the public square. You will have your prize catch. And you will lose everything.
G.S. Jennsen
#6. If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.
Charles Saatchi
#7. Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I'd done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a few times, and, I'm sorry, I did not trust Chiron's back the the way I trusted his front.
Rick Riordan
#8. Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.
Haruki Murakami
#9. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.
Ray Bradbury
#10. He can't parade back into my life and expect me to throw confetti at his feet.
Lauren Oliver
#11. 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
#12. A person can allow a tyrannical world to bully them. One can kowtow to the demands of petty tormentors; blithely accept being the drummer boy for other people's private parade. Alternatively, a person can seek to obtain autonomy over their life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#13. The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally ... I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress.
Gerard Way
#15. With slouch and swing around the ring
We trod the Fools' Parade!
We did not care: we knew we were
The Devils' Own Brigade:
And shaven head and feet of lead
Make a merry masquerade.
Oscar Wilde
#16. Women are such contrary creatures when it comes to sex. You parade around like scantily clad vixens but blush when you're caught staring at the erections you cause.
Katie MacAlister
#17. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has new balloons this year including the Pillsbury Doughboy balloon and the first openly gay balloon. Also the Thomas Tank Engine balloon, and they even have the Ebola nurse balloon.
David Letterman
#18. YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.
Sathya Sai Baba
#19. Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.
William Battie
#20. 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
#21. Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.
Jason Sudeikis
#22. A parade looks like a bunch of people are excited about being in traffic.
Demetri Martin
#23. we were never meant to be what we are or where we are, we are looking for an escape, some music from the sun, the girl we never found. we are betting on the miracle again there before the purple mountains as the horses parade past so much more beautiful than our lives.
Charles Bukowski
#24. It will be celebrated ... with pomp and parade ... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
John Adams
#25. Pizza Hut isn't real pizza," I tell them. "The way that balloon of Big Bird they fly in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade isn't the real Big Bird.
Meg Cabot
#26. The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.
Orville Dewey
#27. Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
Gail Carson Levine
#28. [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
#29. Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#30. Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.
Adele Parks
#31. I'll sit down for an hour or two a few days a week in a quiet place and brainstorm. The earlier in the day, the better, before the parade of distractions starts.
Ted Alexandro
#32. I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
Gail Collins
#33. You waltz with vampires and parade about town with undead monsters, and yet you are afraid of me, Duchess?
Robin Bridges
#34. They parade for us
In zoos - in portraits
Of every generation.
Abigail George
#35. 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
#36. The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's," adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.
Josh Alan Friedman
#37. 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.
#39. I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'
Lance Bass
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#43. When people try to rain on your parade, ... pee on theirs
Josh Stern
#44. I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.
Gene Kranz
#45. I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade
Assata Shakur
#46. The world has nothing to offer me, no single shred of interest. I'm a woman trapped on a balcony, watching a passing parade, a blur of noise and motion that eventually turns to a single point on the horizon, a gutter full of trampled and muddy cups, and the sense of wasting an afternoon.
Lauren Oliver
#47. 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
#48. And we step off the curb, all of us together, as if to say: Here we come. Through hard days and good ones, through despair and through exhilaration, in love and out of love, for just now or for forever. Here we come. It's our parade.
Nina LaCour
#49. Yesterday, after the Thanksgiving parade, Donald Trump appeared at Macy's to promote his new line of fragrances and business suits. Unfortunately, there were high winds and Trump's hair nearly killed two people.
Conan O'Brien
#50. Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say: "Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others". I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say: "All right, that's that. What's next?"
Fred Astaire
#51. I march in the parade of liberty
But as long as I love you I'm not free
How long must I suffer such abuse
Won't you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?
Bob Dylan
#52. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Adam Smith
#53. I'm not a superhero, I say. It's an awful tag. It's egotistical, and it doesn't fit. I don't parade around in spandex.
Kendare Blake
#54. It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.
Henry Lawson
#55. Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken ... that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.
Jack Kerouac
#56. 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
#57. The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.
Argus Hamilton
#58. ...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation to parade it,...
W. Somerset Maugham
#59. He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Harpo Marx
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
Robert Breault
#63. As I said, many. They are passing even now. An endless parade of them. They smile, they bow, a child wags his tongue like a dog's tail. Some of them speak. Do you know the poet George Seferis?
Stephen King
#64. I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.
Phil McGraw
#65. A chill crawls up Miriam's spine. A parade of baby spiders.
Chuck Wendig
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.
George W. Crane
#69. It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.
Erno Rubik
#70. We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.
Susan Orlean
#71. Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh.
Richard House
#72. The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.
Potter Stewart
#73. One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Jean Rostand
#74. 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
#75. The emperor is naked!"
The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted:
"No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!
James Finn Garner
#76. Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.
Will Rogers
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#80. No matter how many wrong turns we've taken and no matter how many detours we've been down, it's God's grace that gets us back onto the parade route.
Mark Batterson
#81. Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.
Merlin Mann
#82. Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade.
Frank Buckles
#83. 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
#84. A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
James F. Cooper
#86. War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
Amy Goodman
#87. 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
#88. Let's not get ahead of ourselves
There's no need for rain
It's our own parade
Let's not be afraid of our reflections
It's not only you you're looking at now
Jack Johnson
#89. And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.
Morgan Matson
#90. You really do have the license during fashion week to wear the things that you wouldn't necessarily wear to dinner, because it really is a fashion parade.
Brad Goreski
#91. Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.
Donna VanLiere
#92. The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
Og Mandino
#93. We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
Richard Brautigan
#94. 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
#95. My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.
Herbert Hoover
#96. The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
Zhuangzi
#97. But what gave rise to the swaggering self-righteousness I so often encountered among these students? How could one feel guilt and shame, and at the same time parade one's self-righteousness?
Bernhard Schlink
#98. Whatever game you're playing, you're going to lose," he whispers. "And I'll be right there to rub your nose in it when it happens."
"Great. Well, at least I have something to look forward to." I cross my arms. "Now why don't you go parade your lack of dignity somewhere else?
Rachel Morgan
#99. I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.
Jonah Goldberg
#100. Say again, over," he announced.
"I was saying that I'm going from here on foot," Arkeley told them. "You can follow however you choose but this place was never meant for a military parade."
"He's making fun of your truck," Caxton told Captain Suzie.
David Wellington
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