Parade Quotes

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

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.

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.

Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?

I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.

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.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.

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.

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide.

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.

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere.

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.

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

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.

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.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.