It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.
I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.
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.
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.
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.
The pivotal scene in 'AK,' where Jackie Shroff 's character Singaperumal parades around his room in the buff, is a metaphor for his false sense of prde and arrogance.
Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
