Parade Quotations

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.

'I Just Might Pray' by The David Mayfield Parade has an upbeat tempo without being sugary sweet. 'I Just Might Pray' is an enjoyable track and is easily listened to. As a side note, the video for 'I Just Might Pray' is absolutely adorable.

I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts that animals used to perform, such as in Cirque du Soleil and other traveling troops, there is no need to parade animals around anymore in cages for personal gratification.

We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

More than any other, this boardwalk brings back that exhilarating teenage sense of summer-vacation freedom and possibility. Throbbing with energy day and night, fueled by Thrasher's fries soaked in vinegar (a true delicacy), the 'walk' features cool reversible benches that flip back and forth, depending on whether you want to gaze at the Atlantic Ocean or the passing parade along the boardwalk itself.

Neither team was stopping each other and then Chris Hernandez had a stretch there that changed everything. The big shot he hits, the 3-pointers, and then he gets bumped and the parade continues. Having that happen where they get a lot of points at the line was one of my biggest fears.

Obviously the penalty parade would suggest I'm not completely happy at all, nor should (the players) be. There's no benefit of the doubt in the playoffs. You're in the big parade now and you've got to participate. It becomes obviously clear we're incapable of dealing with the pressure of these types of situations well enough to stay out of the penalty box and give ourselves a chance.

Let the parade go on, ... It's a huge benefit to the city.

Me and a couple guys were talking about a parade on State Street or Michigan Avenue.

She just thought it was me and her walking on the stage. I got her to wave to the crowd a few times. She had a blast on the parade float. She liked all the commotion and people running around.

I have my parade in my head, how I would plan it. But I can't tell you. It's a secret.

Kids in the '60s, you know, are disillusioned. There is no question about that. They feel that John Kennedy went, Bobby Kennedy went, Martin Luther King went-they were all killed-and the kids do feel that the lights have gone out in Camelot, the banners are furled, and the parade is over.

Halfway through the parade (Saturday morning), my arm was tired. The support here is something special.

Fountain Square has been a favorite spot for families to view the parade in the past. However, with construction under way there, it seemed appropriate to avoid the area for convenience and safety reasons.

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going to pass up an opportunity this Saturday to parade congressman and senators in front of hundreds of thousands of men. So there is no evidence of this political connection.

His numbers speak for themselves and he's well-deserved to be a PARADE All-American.

Our new chapel is the major Bicentennial project. That will be dedicated in April. We'll also be very excited about this parade we're having in October.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

I thought it was great for Fort Riley. You know a lot of these troops have just come back from Iraq and they'll have a big parade out there. It'll be a nice event.

Remember, the day of the parade and March 17, everybody's Irish -- or wish they were.

I think he's very deserving of it. He showed in his play at the Shrine Bowl that he can play with the best of the best, so he's definitely worthy of the Parade selection.

I think he thought he was going to get a parade when he killed Medgar Evers.

I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.

Keith, I think what happened is that Jesse Jackson ran around the block and tried to get out in front of a parade that was already on the march.

I think we're all wondering how the game is going to be called, whether there is going to be a parade of players to the penalty box.

We were going to give him a ticker-tape parade when he showed up, ... but I couldn't keep my eyes open.

The problem stems from the lack of strong families with parents who hold sound, godly principles. Black men need to overcome anger, so they can take back their lives from the enemies who parade as friends. They must become heads of their families again, and begin to appreciate being productive citizens. Then and only then will we begin to see a change in the black family, which will extend to the community and to the country at large.

Unfortunately, we started our own parade to the penalty box. The only thing I have to say about it is that we can only control our response. What was disappointing to me is that we lost our composure and totally broke down.

We'll not back down. We're loyal British subjects who only want to be allowed to parade peacefully where we always have in our town.

the ancient craft to its rightful place as an art form. In the show, he takes us on a multi-dimensional journey that combines his skills with a parade of characters that range from a subversive monkey to a withering tennis ball.

We have an authentic German oompah band. We've also got the samba flamingo band from Southwest Harbor. ... They'll parade through and welcome people at the gate.

Why was he at my home during work hours? The bottom line is that people cannot parade in front of my home in a protest without a permit. Mr. Vasquez did everything wrong.

We have a lot of our returning favorites that always participate with us, and we have a lot of new groups. It's just amazing how word of mouth spreads; people found out just how exciting and how much fun the parade is, and they wanted to get involved.

We had more structure, but our penalty parade took us out of the hockey game. You can't continually give teams the quality of Dallas power plays. They made us pay.

We'll be able to roll 15 to 17 floats this year. We want everyone to know that the parade is open to anyone who wants to be part of it.

We've seen the parade seven times. It just keeps getting better.

The fact is people are parking all over the city. So even if you are not on the parade route, you can get business.

We decided to give up the parade for two reasons. The first reason was the high cost of liability insurance. The second reason was the safety factor.

We're looking forward to the biggest and best season opening parade in history.

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.

Tradition and sports intertwine at West Point, where the Academy overlooks the Hudson River. The full-dress cadet parade is a must before kickoff, and the Long Gray Line performs precision drills and patriotic music in full dress on The Plain. Tailgating at Buffalo Soldier Field is serious, with candelabras and champagne.

We did some stupid things we need to fix; it was a parade to the box. Especially back-to-back nights, we had no legs at the end. Because we're young, the refs might be harder on us.

We are literally amazed at how smoothly the parade operated with such challenging conditions.

The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it.

We want this to be the biggest parade since 1956 and give the community a great celebration.

When the parade began, Lloyd came out of the bookstore and was standing on the sidewalk. And when he saw me he called out in a very loud voice: "JOE! Isn't this wonderful! Isn't this a marvelous day! Can you imagine this ever happening?

We would like to see the parade re-energized with more entries too.

We thought the first two calls were weak. That put us behind the eight-ball. There was a parade to the box tonight and I don't know what a call is anymore.

We should talk about moving the fair parade to Fort Collins. We lost the ball somewhere. I know Loveland isn't going to like it.

We'll be as gentle or as forceful as we need to be, ... They have a right to protest, we respect their right to protest, we have every intention of allowing them to do that, as long as it doesn't interfere with the parade itself or the events that are associated with it.

Usually in a parade you have a grand marshal. Well, we don't just have one grand marshal, we have the whole club as the grand marshal, and each Irish group will have more than 40 golf carts in the parade.

We're freezing out here, but it's totally worth it. This is the most beautiful parade in the world.

We started the parade there. It's just frustrating as a coach because you see a little bit of light, a little bit of a comeback, and then you start taking penalties.

We've almost reached celebrity status here after beating Sullivan. We were in the Labor Day parade in Bicknell Monday, and people were coming out of the crowd and shaking our hands and patting us on the back.

As I have said before, they have 65 Parade All-Americans and we have 65 men who have marched in a parade.

Because it has been such a long time since we won, maybe we are all the more grateful that the wait has ended. I have such strong memories of '85 as captain, holding up the urn and celebrations at the Oval but that was it. We never had a parade in those days.

Being the grand marshal of the Jackie Robinson West Little League Season Opening Parade is a real honor for me. That Little League program has begun the careers of many people in and out of the world of sports.

Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

I've been there. I've stood on the hot parade ground as a pilot. I've cursed generals.

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.

The starting time of the parade is actually determined by the length of time of the traditional brunch,

When you invite him to speak, the real issue gets lost. This was to be a day for the hungry of the world. But he made a political speech and rained on the parade of the poor,

When we parade in London next month, a world record will be the last thing on our minds, more so given the strong field that will be running.

The Rose Parade is a wonderful way for us to highlight our ongoing celebration of five decades of Disney theme park magic. Our parks are magical experiences that offer creatively unique entertainment that appeals to families the world over, transcending geographic and cultural barriers to simply speak the international language of fun -- that's pretty magical.

There is nothing like seeing the Irish flag during the parade fly with the American flag at the Liberty Pole. It's a celebration of all immigrants that have come to America ... for all immigrant people and the success in the U.S.

There could be no better time or place for this Welcome Home party than in Las Vegas during our 2005 Centennial celebration, ... Las Vegas is proud of our servicemen and women and equally proud of our veterans. We anticipate a 2005 Veterans Day parade and air show that will go down in the history books.

There is no justification for what happened this afternoon in Dublin. Sinn Fein had appealed to people to ignore this loyalist parade and not to be provoked by it. Our view was that it should not be opposed in any way and we made that clear.

To win a game with that parade to the penalty box requires a good effort and a little luck. If you score six goals in this league, you're going to win nine out of 10 times.

Bo Diddley won't be in the parade this year. As far as the president goes, the president happens to be a Bo Diddley fan. But this a student production, and if this is the students' decision, then he supports it.

After a tough start to our Celtic League campaign with three away games in a row, it is nice to have a match at Rodney Parade and we are looking to make it a difficult place for teams to come and play,

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

Some rain will be heavy. It looks like it will be very, very wet for the Rose Parade on Monday. That's what they get for changing the date.

I've always thought the highlights of the festival were the parade and the street market. It's always fun and it brings a lot of people to the St. James downtown area.

A little too much celebrating? Well, you deserve it, girlfriend. Get ready for raves. Everyone I talked to said the Pelican Park Parade of Homes has set the standard. You outdid yourself, Pinky.

There's no way that we could do it at this time. We had to notify the rescue groups and the vendors who had already scheduled to participate that day. However, the Pooch Parade will go on.

There's obviously some political motive in the parade of his arrest.

There's no benefit-of-a-doubt stuff in the playoffs. You're in the big parade now and you have to participate. If we give ourselves a chance to play five-on-five hockey, then who knows?

The parade is going to have to deal with rain and wind.

The parade is not really a parade like one thinks of. We really have a family rally. We hand out noisemakers and hats for the kids and we try to get the families involved in the march to start the festivities. Last year's was bigger than any parade that I have seen yet in Milford.

The parade is to help generate traffic for the circus. People are used to going out to Christensen Field for events. We think this will be a popular event.

The parade is usually my favorite part of the St. Pat's Day celebration. I helped run the parade last year and it was a lot of fun.

The parade was the first time some people came back to the area for a long time.

The participation of the business and civic groups was overwhelming. The parade route was lined with spectators who weren't disappointed.

We had 80 entries for the parade and about 150 vehicles and floats. This is probably the largest parade we have ever had.

This will make it meaningful, and especially if it is part of the River Parade and the two other parades.

This close to the parade route I am very afraid that we're going to be inundated so we did all we thought we could do to prepare for it.

This is not the typical rally. It's more like a parade than a protest.

I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.

Immigrants have a huge impact. Who's been fixing houses after the hurricanes and working in restaurants? This parade shows the unity among Cubans, Mexicans and all Hispanics.

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.

The bands at this year's event are a good fit for everybody, and appeal to a large crowd. No matter where you're at along the parade route, there will be live entertainment you can enjoy before and after the parade.

Stone was the most prominent architect in America, and he decided that the modernist movement in architecture -- in other words, the parade of glass boxes that marched across America -- had become exhausted, not worth pursuing anymore,

It used to be thousands of people hanging out on the streets, getting ready for the parade with their kids and stuff. Kids are all in school somewhere else now. It's not really a family event today. Just people who've been able to come back, working. It's really sad.

All my career, all I have ever really done, all I ever have accomplished, is to talk about the accomplishments of others. We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to stand on the curb and applaud as the parade goes by.

All registered parade participants who have not picked up their decals can do so at the front desk of Laurel Manor Center through Friday,

I want to be in the parade of champions.

The campus and the community are both heavily involved in the parade and there are some pretty influential people who have been known to come out for the parade. I've heard that Sen. Jim Talent will be at the parade this year. The parade draws a lot more attention than people give it credit for. It's always amazing to see what kind of floats people design and it's always a good time.