Parades Quotes

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

  Mike Ditka

  Football, Nfl, Watches

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• It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

  John Adams

  4th Of July, Illumination, Ends

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• 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 are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

  Sally Stanford

  Running, Advice, Looks

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

  Demetri Martin

  Men, Traffic, Exciting

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• Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Cute, Friendship, Cute Love

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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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• I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.

  Gene Kranz

  Thinking, Tape, Should

  Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Dancing, Way

  Song: Mr. Tambourine Man, 1965

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

  Linda Hogan

  Poetry, Permit, Strings

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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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• 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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• When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Heart, People, Water

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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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