Top 331 Parade Quotes & Sayings

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

I've never been to a Pride parade.

Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

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

I have no problem with the Pride parade.

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.

I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade

We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra skirts for the rest of the century. And I'm not going to parade about in black evening gowns on tour!

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

First CD I bought for myself was 'The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance.

I didn't have a parade of teams wanting to sign me, that's for sure.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

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

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

I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, that there was to be a homosexual parade on the Monday that the Katrina came, and the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing, and I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.

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

The Republicans could mess up a two car parade

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I'm gay, but I'm not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade.

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

A parade looks like a bunch of people are excited about being in traffic.

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

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.

To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.

So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.

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

From the minute we're born, boys and girls stare at each other, trying to figure out if they like what they see. Like parade lines, passing each other for mutual inspection. You march, you look. You march, you look. If you're interested, you stop and talk, and if it doesn't work out, you just get back in the parade. You keep marching, and you keep looking.

Oooh, that was fun." "That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means." Isabelle pulled the long heavy mass of her wet hair forward and wrung it out as if it were wet washing. "You're raining on my parade." "It's a pretty wet parade already, if you hadn't noticed." Jace glanced around.

Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade.

For me, the worst set is always when something happens to your equipment. Or back in the days your records wouldn't arrive and you couldn't perform in front of people. The best for me was performing for the Love Parade. That was kind of a blessing. I was never respected as an electronic artist. I was very big as a hip-hop DJ in my home town and in Germany. And then becoming an electronic artist, it was very hard for me to fight my way up. It still is, to be honest. I can still watch the Love Parade on YouTube, and I still put my hand over my head.

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.

I'm not a huge parade guy myself.

We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

A parade is the worst form of transportation known to man.

I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

I never thought that I would share a hit parade with the Beatles.

There was a lovely bit of play which set Valley Parade alight again

Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.

We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.

People will try to rain on your parade because they have no parade of their own.

I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity.

The inaugural parade is like an extension of the president's personality, .. Dwight Eisenhower, for example. A conservative guy. A military man. Short and simple was what his inauguration parade was all about.

One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.

A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.

Personality-wise, I like to avoid putting my pride on parade.

He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade

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

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

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.

I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.