Parades Quotes

A man goes and fights for his country, gets his inside gassed out, and loses his job, and all they give him is the privilege of marching past the Cenotaph once a year and paying four shillings in the pound income-tax.

I don't go home to parades.

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.

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.

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

The goal was for the men to see each other, to give the troops and idea of their own strength, to infuse espirit de corps.

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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.

I don't think I'm gay. I don't think I'm straight. I think I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

These people would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

St. Patrick's Day is the fourth biggest drinking day in America. It's not the biggest. It's right behind New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, or any Secret Service party.

As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.

My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.

Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'

If there's an air raid during the parade and there are dead and wounded, they must be quickly removed and the parade allowed to go on.

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

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

I like parades.

The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.

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.

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.