Marching Quotations

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.

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.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

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.

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

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.

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.

When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.

I go to the opera. It's mostly my wife that's a bigger fan, I'd say, than I am. I like the big opera. I want a lot of people on stage, elephants and marching stuff, and the modern stuff I don't care for.

I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example.

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America needs isn't a leader - it is education. Giving speeches and marching - that's not the concept that brings about real freedom, equality and justice.

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.

My actions are not based on some kind of report card out there or marching in lockstep to any specific group. I can't be all things to all people. They are not the only constituent base out there.

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though 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.

Poorly-planned development is marching like a marauding army through the Shenandoah Valley.

I have gained a lot of friends from being here. I get especially emotional when marching in parades and holding the American flag.

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.

Let's push for 20,000 people marching that day.

She was beaten, tear-gassed and jailed at 11 years old, marching with her community for the right to vote.

If I was Harper right now, I'd go right into Quebec and hold big rallies. Big balloons and marching bands and just feel-good stuff.

From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

Chris, listen to me, put down the gun and let the marching band go. We'll play it off as a prank.

I'll always offer my support to this club, ... If that means coming down here and marching down Brighton seafront again then that's what I'll do.

He doesn't allow one second of down time ... we're either yelling, or chanting, or playing, or screaming - it's all about focus. We train for music and marching but we also practice spirit.

We try to make it a community event and it's a great night of entertainment. You don't have to know much about marching bands. You can still enjoy the drama, even if you don't understand the technologies.

Marching band today isn't your grandmother or grandfather's marching band where the band walked out onto the field, stopped and played a couple of songs and walked off the field. These students are moving thousands of steps at high tempos all the while playing an instrument or using a piece of color guard equipment during one show.

Marching is a big thing for me and my family. I'll be the first person in my family to graduate from college, so it is a big thing to march.

I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter August when the hayCame creaking to the barn.

Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file - the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur-trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer - and the frontier has passed by. Stand at South Pass in the Rockies a century later and see the same procession with wider intervals between.

Our obligation is to give them the marching orders. We should take a step back.

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.

It appears that Governor Bush is marching off in one direction while his key lieutenants are running off in another.

It can give a movement like this legs that it wouldn't have had 10 years ago, ... Today, protest is decentralized. You don't have to get 100,000 people marching on Washington. But you can get 10,000 people in 10 different cities rather quickly.

It can give a movement like this legs that it wouldn't have had 10 years ago. Today, protest is decentralized. You don't have to get 100,000 people marching on Washington. But you can get 10,000 people in 10 different cities rather quickly.

I was marching in my mom's footsteps and that was pretty tough,

You do not get groups of people marching on city hall saying 'protect me from the earthquake.'

We don't have buildings; we don't have cafeterias; we don't have football teams and marching bands. What we spend our money on is the actual education that students are getting and in particular, we spend our money on making sure that students have access to faculty.

We need to take this critical mass and organize it. Marching is not enough. We need to harness this power.

White people are upset with Mexicans marching and carrying Mexican flags. Instead of carrying Mexican flags and screaming for the rights of people who came into this country illegally, we'll be carrying American flags.

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous

We were marching to say we want more than day to day survival.

We'll be marching forward, we'll be reaching out to everyone, we'll be rising up and standing strong, ... Detroit's best days are ahead of us.

I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move.

REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.

Today we are only marching in protest, but if you do not stop this assault (on Muhammad) we will sacrifice our souls and our blood for the prophet. Our message today is that we will accept an official apology from the government, but if the assault continues we will burn the land under their feet.

We probably have 60 or 70 floats or groups marching or participating.

We are marching to defend our civil liberties which are under attack and to show our solidarity with the Muslim communities who are bearing the brunt of that attack.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot. It occurs through a suspension of the time-sequence; a mystery is a pocket in time, and it occurs crudely, as in "Why did the queen die?" and more subtly in half-explained gestures and words, the true meaning of which only dawns pages ahead. Mystery is essential to plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence. ... To appreciate a mystery, part of the mind must be left behind, brooding, while the other part goes marching on.

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

We're marching to support the people who come here to work for a better life. This is what we're all fighting for.

Each type of industry was on the march toward the West, impelled by an irresistible attraction. Each passed in successive waves across the continent. Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file-- the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer --and the frontier has passed by. Stand at South Pass in the Rockies a century later and see the same procession with wider intervals between.

Each year, I take it upon myself as dean of students to go and talk to the freshman band members by themselves. I let them know that in order to be a part of the Southern University Marching Band, they don't have to take certain physical or mental abuse to be a part of the band.

Disasters -- flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes, and so on -- have a schizophrenic political life, ... Before, or between, events you don't have people marching on city hall or state capitol steps saying, 'Save us from the hurricane, earthquake etc.'

What people in Washington are saying is that Fitzpatrick simply could not stand up to the pressure of the Republican leadership when they demanded that he vote with them, meaning that on such a vital vote for his district, he prioritized the Republican Party marching orders over the interests of his own constituents and his own principles. People in Pennsylvania's 8th district have to worry that if Fitzpatrick caved in to GOP leadership pressure on CAFTA, what might he do on a whole host of other issues on which he has committed to his voters but which are not in line with the Republican leaders' positions.

I've been marching in every single ethnic nationality parade all throughout the City of New York. We're all Americans first and foremost, but people understand their heritage and it's good to see.

I've been in marching band since my freshman year and the best part of it for me has been the relationships I've made.

The shift towards light trucks is marching on.

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.

They all come off as the Great Sphinx because they have marching orders about not talking to the media.

We've had some students who enjoyed these types of programs so much they've made the pursuit of music a big part of their lives. We've even had some go on to perform with the marching and concert bands at Westmoreland High School.

Even if we marched without the uniforms, even if we marched without the marching 100, you know, it's in us, you can't take our spirit away.

The thing I'm really looking for is that perfect night, when you're out there and it's like a window opens onto the world. And you get a whole brigade marching down in one glorious moment. The battle unfolds in front of you, and you get it all on camera history in motion.

Oh! be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!/ Our God is marching on.

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.

This tree was literally a sapling when Washington was marching down here. I'm hoping that whenever they develop the property, they'll leave it here.

This is as good as it gets. For a high school marching band, it's like going to the Super Bowl. The national and global exposure is very positive public relations for the school.

Increasingly the booster clubs at the high school level are supplementing the music program, particularly for the marching bands.

I need to get it to them, let them make the plays and keep marching down the field.

I have not gotten instructions from the White House about my marching orders, but I am sure those will come as the days and weeks go by.

I'm marching because this will bring attention to the war and what's going on here in the South. It's outrageous.

I'm proud that some of our African-American friends are marching with us. This is about the Chinese and the Germans and the Russians, too.

If you try to force things against them, you're going to self-destruct. I think their defense is based in part on the premise that an offense has a hard time marching down the field for 80 yards. You're going to get impatient and force something, and that's going to create a turnover or failed third down that causes you to punt. They count on you self-destructing as much as they count on themselves succeeding.

If you go to the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York, there would be 800 marching Irish cops. We're going to have a 50-man contingent of retirees from New York and a lot of police vehicles representing all the local departments as well as active duty military.

It's been marching along on its own all weekend long and we aren't going to do anything more to the spacecraft unless, in the very unlikely event that something goes wrong.

It's pretty short. We're pretty lazy about these kinda things. Marching long ways isn't really our thing.

It's our senior year and will be closure for our marching band experience.

The institutional investors tend to play follow the leader. And right now they're all marching behind the big generals, like Boeing, Exxon, Merck ... and so forth. And the ordinary soldiers are way in the rear ranks, dragging along.

It's been very quiet today. The students have been marching for the last two days and maybe they are tired or maybe they have decided to give us a break.

I put together a meeting with all of the disaffiliated principals and we reached an agreement that they will be marching in our Labor Day Parade, ... The unity that we have gives us a better opportunity to survive this. I look at the glass half full this disaffiliation is temporary and its also a healthy debate for us to have.

I really believe I have just the greatest job. My marching orders are to go out and find a good story.

I hope I'm not marching with an umbrella.

I just like being around marching band, and Southside was the first that came to mind,

By this time another group of kids had come down from Nashville. So 22 of us spent the night in the Birmingham bus station with the Klan marching around outside.

These trophies are for all the past marching band competitions we have been in.

The clerics are the kingmakers, the peacemakers and the war-makers. People are marching by order of clerics and stopping by order of clerics.

(The marching band) is a great fraternity of musicians. Joanne is certainly one of those people. She's one of the bright stars of AHS. We're proud of her.

These are not credible opponents, and the fact that the agenda is marching to their tune hurts.

The road to freedom is paved with grave markers of brave men and women, who gave their lives for their country, never to come marching home, except in the hearts of the loved ones they left behind".

It's a huge change in philosophy. But (City Manager Anita Favors Thompson) has given me clear marching orders: Make this a world-class shelter and all that entails.

As a community, we're asking for reasonable support marching toward the future.

They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.

It's kind of all right that these people fade from the scene, because you have to understand that they didn't do what they did for the movement to stay in that mode -- of marching in the streets for social change -- for 50 years. They wanted it to find its way into the necessary institutions of American society.

What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on

We don't want students marching out of their classes. We respect their rights to free speech, but we do not support that. They need to stay in school and finish their education and go to college.

We got our marching orders yesterday, so we marched up to the fifth floor. We're just elated that we got out of the ICU and got him up to his own room. He's doing extremely well. His voice is coming back.

To a degree, the Japanese market has been marching to its own drummer for a number of years due to its economic difficulties.

We've got a little ways to go. We are marching toward that ($55-$60 million) mark.