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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission. -- Patrick MacGill
...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield... -- Don McLean
Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Iâ??ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life. -- Leonard Cohen
O how beautiful is morning! How the sunbeams strike the daisies And the kingcups fill the meadow Like a golden-shielded army Marching to the uplands fair. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress. -- Sheila Jackson Lee
Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface on a trip, Marching Band can call and command me to pick up my li'l jerkface. -- MaryJanice Davidson
I was hated, you know. I made no secret of the fact that I was an atheist. People told me there are no atheists in fox holes. That's nonsense. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)] -- Pierre Berton
Marching diverts man's thoughts. Marching kills thoughts. Marching makes an end of individuality. Marching is the indispensable magic stroke performed in order to accustom people to a mechanical, quasi-ritualistic activity until it becomes second nature. -- Adolf Hitler
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band. -- Sammy Hagar
Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission." -- Patrick MacGill
You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything. -- Nellie McKay
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps. -- Bob Black
I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me. -- Solomon Burke
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. -- Mark Twain
I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school. -- Tommy Lee
Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop. -- Barack Obama
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. -- George H. W. Bush
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy. -- Jennifer Garner
I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band. -- Steve Antin
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. -- Douglas Coupland
Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed. -- John Ortberg
Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too. -- Kailash Satyarthi
I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh? -- Patti LuPone
Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster or commodity in Canadian celebration. Canada isn't big on bunting. Or jet flyovers, fireworks, marching bands or military pomp. -- Rick Moranis
Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do. -- Barack Obama
With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat? -- Yehuda Berg
With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job. -- Jennifer Granholm
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. -- Ralph Nader
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. -- Amelia Barr
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. -- Henry Ford
I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person. -- Carl Paladino
I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world. -- Betty Friedan
In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger. -- Greg van Eekhout
The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow. -- Carlton Cuse
Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends. -- James Nesbitt
Every battalion has its marching songs. -- Patrick MacGill
Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching -- Rodman Philbrick
I take my marching orders from the Constitution. -- Ron Paul
Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat. -- George William Russell
They be marching hand in hand, like going to war. -- Alice Walker
Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer. -- Adrian Belew
The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity -- Irving Fisher
Protests [against Donald Trump] four nights running.Thousands marching across the country. -- George Stephanopoulos
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls. -- Janet Morris
The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file -- Ernst Junger
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps -- Bob Black
There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins. -- Terry Pratchett
We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders. -- Noam Chomsky
The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly. -- Michel de Montaigne
There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face. -- Dolly Parton
The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. -- Etheridge Knight
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. -- Michael Crichton
A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing. -- Peter Schjeldahl
unquestioning automatonsblindly marching to the beat -an eerie crunching soundhoards of shuffling feet(from silent moments) -- Muse
Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles. -- Daphne Koller
REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band. -- Demetri Martin
We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous. -- Robert Patrick
We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching. -- Al Sharpton
...unquestioning automatonsblindly marching to the beat -an eerie crunching soundhoards of shuffling feet...(from silent moments) -- Muse
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against. -- Don Meyer
The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag -- David Letterman
My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing. -- Dolores Huerta
Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?! -- Matt Drudge
Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore -- Phil Ochs
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. -- George Michael
Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity. -- Hervey Allen
We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march. -- Al Sharpton
Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy. -- John L. Lewis
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. -- Noam Chomsky
The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven. -- Rodrigue Tremblay
Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence. -- David Bowie
I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home. -- Albert J. Nock
The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud. -- Mason Cooley
Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door. -- Jared Leto
It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music. -- Jack Valenti
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. -- Otto von Bismarck
Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal. -- Pat Heim
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world... -- Jose Saramago
He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is. -- Ann Brashares
The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in. -- Anne Sexton
A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don't think it would be as effective now. -- Germaine Greer
The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it. -- Liz Miller
We formed in 1993 to make it clear that we don't take our marching orders from anyone overseas, we have no connection to the Muslim Brotherhood. -- Mahdi Bray
I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me. -- Tatyana Ali
War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing. -- Art Buchwald
If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening. -- Dr. Dre
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. -- Robert Lowell
Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates. -- Bill Dedman
[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen -- Miriam Makeba
When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library. -- Oprah Winfrey
I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom. -- Rick Riordan
I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that! -- Quincy Jones
Capitalism has only hurt Latin America. There are social democrats and others who are marching more in the direction of equality, whether you call them socialists or communists. -- Evo Morales
I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike. -- Jeremih
The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children. -- Adolf Hitler
Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war. -- George W. Bush
What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change. -- Howard Zinn
God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts. -- Soren Kierkegaard
We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress. -- John Lewis
I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in the streets. I'm not a die-hard girl's girl. -- Scheana Marie
But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody. -- Al Sharpton
Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum! -- Shannon L. Alder
Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination. -- Ita Buttrose
Our nation has come so far since 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated, but I know we can do better to achieve The Dream, and that is why I keep marching on. -- Charles B. Rangel
The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread. -- Paul Robeson
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings. -- Bob Beauprez
Within white Australia, there was a growing movement for what was known as reconciliation - a movement that peaked with millions marching in 2000 to demand the government say sorry for past injustices. -- Richard Flanagan
A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans. -- Robert Klein
The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets. -- Cynthia P. Schneider
There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene, being on the streets and making your demands and your voice heard; -- Aldis Hodge
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. -- Martha Graham
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. -- George Bernard Shaw

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