Pageant Quotes - Page 3

• On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street,
  The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet,
  With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea
  And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.

  John Masefield

  Life, Song, Feet

  John Masefield (1913). “Salt-water Ballads”

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• …So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

  John Dryden

  Sky, Crumbling, Lasts

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day' (1687) 'Grand Chorus'

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• Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

  Diane Ackerman

  Habitat, Evolve, Species

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.92, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Now, how can I be anti-woman? I even judged the Miss America pageant.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, America, Missing

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• The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

  Kevin Hart

  Sports, Tweed, Tarot

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• Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

  Washington Irving

  Loneliness, Solitude, Feelings

  Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Suicide, Grief

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.92, University of Georgia Press

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• In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

  Susan Faludi

  America, Years, Justice

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Kings, Dark

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• Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Captains, Fool

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.149

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• Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Unhappy, Theatre

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.622, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do what it thinks best serves its interests, and if moving out of Atlantic City does, that's what it should do.

  Leonard Horn

  Moving, Thinking, Cities

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• When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.

  Greg Graffin

  People, Creative, Feelings

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• There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain satisfaction in being elected... but the man who steps into the English Parliament takes his place in a pageant that has ever been filing by since the birth of English history... York or Lancaster, Protestant or Catholic, Court or Country, Roundhead or Cavalier, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, Labour or Unionist, they all fit into that long pageant that no other country in the world can show.

  Josiah Wedgwood

  Country, Men, English History

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• A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.

  E. M. Forster

  Lying, Mirrors, Historical

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace.

  Jay Leno

  Fighting, Thinking, Missing

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• It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.

  Steve McFadden

  Opportunity, Rivers, Diamond Jubilee

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• My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

  David Walton

  Jesus, Years, Church

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

  Rodney Crowell

  Art, Children, Media

  Song: It's a Different World Now, Album: Fate's Right Hand, 2003

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• Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on.

  Katherine Webb

  Makeup, Different, Looks

  "Katherine Webb on Fitness, Fame, and What's Next". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com. March 19, 2013.

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• And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Men, Space, Long

  G. M. Trevelyan (2016). “History and the Reader”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance. Both suffering and joy come then like a brief reflection, and death like a pin.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Drama, Reflection, Dust

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• I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.

  Molly Quinn

  Love, Hair, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

  Augustine Birrell

  Philosophy, History

  Augustine Birrell (1902). “Collected Essays”

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• The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.

  Marc Marcel

  Truth Is, Beauty Pageant, Meant To Be

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