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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
Parades are man's attempt to make traffic exciting. -- Demetri Martin
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. -- Elliott Smith
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. -- Will Rogers
I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead. -- Laura Kightlinger
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. -- William Westmoreland
Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well. -- Lynette Fromme
It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades. -- Paddy Chayefsky
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. -- Dick Durbin
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
Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for. -- Dalton Trumbo
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. -- Philip James Bailey
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. -- John Naisbitt
If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life. -- Mike Ditka
I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades -- Nathan Lane
Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade. -- Kim Kardashian
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon. -- Haruki Murakami
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
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. -- Frederick Douglass
One of the greatest distinguishing marks of false prophet is that he will always tell you what you want to hear, he will never rain on your parade; he will get you clapping, he will get you jumping, he will make you dizzy, he will keep you entertained, and he will present a Christianity to you that will make your church look like a six flags over Jesus. -- Paul Washer
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades. -- Nathan Lane
As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one. -- Rick Astley
I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning. -- Chris Kattan
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades. -- Brendan I. Koerner
I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American. -- Nick Robinson
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century. -- Adam Davidson
Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either. -- Richard Dawkins
While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country. -- Allen West
When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share. -- Bryan Batt
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body. -- Rebecca Solnit
One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square. -- Marlo Thomas
Never give up; there are no parades for the losing team. -- Ken Poirot
Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit. -- Linda Hogan
I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes. -- Behdad Sami
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes. -- Simon Blackburn
And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades. -- Robert M. Gates
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
He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. -- Henry David Thoreau
Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well." -- Lynette Fromme
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked. -- George Orwell
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it; what is happening in America is that those parades are getting smaller and smaller - and there are many more of them. -- John Naisbitt

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