Parade Quotes
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There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.
Irving Kristol— Quoted in Wilford, H: The New York Intellectuals: From Vanguard to Institution, Manchester University Press, 1995
"The generals of the two invading armies went over the details of the prearranged line that would mark the two zones of conquest for Germany and Soviet Russia, subsequently to be rearranged one more time in Moscow. The military parade that followed was recorded by Nazi cameras and celebrated in the German newsreel: German and Soviet generals cheek by jowl n military homage to each other's armies and victories."
— Raack, Richard (1995). Stalin's Drive to the West, 1938-1945. Stanford University Press. p. 58. ISBN 0804724156.
parade with me my brave fellows, we will have them soon!
george washington— Rallying his troops at the Battle of Princeton (3 January 1777).
We were a self-centred army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom, the second of man's creeds, a purpose so ravenous that it devoured all our strength, a hope so transcendent that ourearlier ambitions faded in its glare.
Arabia— 1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom, ch.1.
Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade.
frank buckles— Problems prior to WWII.
— Knoxville News
A bunch of money-grubbin', greenhouse-gasing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites. People whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.
richard jeni— On the right wing
Time takes her toll and the memory fadesbut his glory is broken, in the magic that he made.Reality is ruined; it's the freeing from the fearThe drama is distorted, to what they want to hearSwimming in their sorrow, in the twisting of a tearAs they wait for a new thrill parade.
phil ochs— "Crucifixion"
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
Adam Smith— Chapter XI, Part II, p. 202 (See also Thorstein Veblen)
La science de la mère comporte des mérites silencieux, ignorés de tous, sans parade, une vertu en détail, un dévouement de toutes les heures.
honoré de balzac— The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.Part I, ch. XLV
Feingold shows a knack for thinking through issues on a case-by-case basis instead of marching in a partisan parade.
russ feingold— "Feingold Sets the Bar a Little Higher," The Door County Advocate, June 28, 2002
Without your love It's a honky-tonk parade Without your love It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world Just as phony as it can be But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me.
yip harburg— "It's Only a Paper Moon" (1933) (co-written with Billy Rose)
In parade deploying :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:; the armies of my pages, I shall inspect :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:;:; the regiments in line. Heavy as lead, :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:;:;:; my verses at attention stand, ready for death :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:; :;:;:;:;:;:; and for immortal fame.
vladimir mayakovsky— "At the Top of My Voice" (1929-30); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) p. 227
The little girl saw her first troop parade and asked, "What are those?" "Soldiers." "What are soldiers?" "They are for war. They fight and each tries to kill as many of the other side as he can." The girl held still and studied. "Do you know ... I know something?" "Yes, what is it you know?" "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
Carl Sandburg— "The People, Yes" (1936)
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665–1678), No. 110.
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.
— Theodore O'Hara, The Bivouac of the Dead.
"The joint invasion of Poland was celebrated with a parade by the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in Brest Litovsk"
Martin kitchen— Kitchen, Martin (1990). A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War. Longman. p. 74. ISBN 0582034086.
Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.... And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
— The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4 - 8 (New King James Version) and an alternative "take":
Nature makes no parade of her means hence all studied grace is unnatural.
— Henry Fuseli, Aphorism 44, in The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli (1831) Vol. III, edited by John Knowles.
De cette alliance nouvelle, car jusqu'ici les décors et les costumes, d'une part, la choréographie, d'autre part, n'avaient entre eux qu'un lien factice, il est résulté, dans parade , une sorte de sur-réalisme.
guillaume apollinaire— From this new alliance – for until now costume and scenery on one hand, choreography on the other, have been linked only artificially – there has resulted in Parade a kind of sur-réalisme.Excelsior, May 11, 1917; translation from Michael Benedikt & George E. Wellwarth (eds.) Modern French Theatre (New York: Dutton, 1964) p. xvii.The first usage of the word surrealism in any language.
The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. It ought to be solemnised with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward, for ever more.
john adams— 1776 Letter to his wife, 3 Jul, on the vote of Congress for independence from Britain.
But of good household features her person was made, Nor by faction cry'd up nor of censure afraid, And her beauty was rather for use than parade.
Matthew Prior— 1708 'Jinny theJust' (first printed1907).The title was givenbyA R Waller.
Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose… …Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part… …perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts… …the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events… …Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects – perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.
Edward Hopper— a letter to his mother, 11 May, 1907; as quoted in "Edward Hopper", Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 2
Showers of [cannon] balls... and shells... poured into the fort in one incessant stream, causing great flakes of masonry to fall in all directions. When the immense mortar shells, after sailing high in he air, came down in a vertical direction and buried themselves in the parade ground, their explosion shook the fort like an earthquake.
— Major Abner Doubleday (1861). Doubleday was second-in-command at Fort Sumter and briefly commanded Union troops at Gettysburg in July 1863. He was later credited with establishing the rules of baseball.
