26 Parades Quotes for You to Enjoy

People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic. Danny K. Davis

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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

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When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. William Westmoreland

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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

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

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Citizenship must be precious, not handed out like candy in a parade. We don't ride along and throw out citizenship like you do M&M's or Tootsie Rolls or whatever it is we're tossing out in our parades. Steve King

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Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician. P. J. O'Rourke

Politician Parades Part Effort Skill Requires Raining

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

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In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions. Amitava Kumar

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We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else. Barbara Demick

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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

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My first job ever was selling balloons with my brother at parades when I was about six years old. My father wanted us to learn about money, how to make it, save it, spend it, etc. Donna Lynne Champlin

My vision is one of celebrations and banquets, diplomas and banners, rings and parades. John Calipari

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I don't go home to parades. John Stockton

Home Parades Go Go Home

I'm so glad that we have had so many consequential rallies and parades which have now educated people and made them stand up for the third gender and give them the absolute place in our society that they deserve. There should have never been a division in the first place, though. Kubra Sait

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I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead. Laura Kightlinger

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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

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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

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I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on. Ruby Dee

Remember Corners Parades Got Street

We don't have parades for mathematicians, we have parades for astronauts. You don't think about all the thousands of people who worked on that capsule and crunched the numbers and were integral in getting that into space. Theodore Melfi

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Growing up in L.A., every kid wants to play for the Lakers. As a kid I went to their championship parades, bought a Kobe jersey - I went to the gym and made everybody call me Kobe - loved Shaq, loved the three-peat. Nick Young

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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

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