{"quotes":[{"text":"When people try to rain on your parade,...Pee on theirs.","author":"Josh Stern","tags":["humor","parade","pee","rain"],"id":15417,"author_id":"Josh+Stern"},{"text":"It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet then with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["apprehension","distrust","film","intent","parade","procession","spectacle","stories","street"],"id":43681,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"CHARADE PARADEA 'Special Day' once a year creates an excuse for neglect on the other 365 days for mothers, fathers \u0026 veterans.","author":"Kamil Ali","tags":["ali","charade","dawn","father","kamil","kamilthe","mother","parade","spawn","special","veteran"],"id":126741,"author_id":"Kamil+Ali"},{"text":"There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.","author":"Robert Ardrey","tags":["discovery","parade","presume","shameless","virtue"],"id":138227,"author_id":"Robert+Ardrey"},{"text":"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.","author":"John Naisbitt","tags":["finding","parade","getting "],"id":141437,"author_id":"John+Naisbitt"},{"text":"A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.","author":"James F. Cooper","tags":["government","monarchy","parade "],"id":210077,"author_id":"James+F.+Cooper"},{"text":"And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["friends","goodbyes","happy","heartwarming","parade","smile"],"id":220466,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"},{"text":"Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","credit","credit-card","debit","debit-card","exhibit","exhibition","flaunt","flaunting","humor","humour","made-me-think","make-you-think","parade","parading","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","ridiculous","satire","satirical","show-off","showing-off","showoff","thought-provoking"],"id":261290,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The wild notes of tuba and trumpet and trombone rattled and hummed through the trees. In the first group of musicians, there were kids as young as fourteen playing the tuba and one kid who probably couldn’t drive banging a bass drum. They stomped together in rhythm to the music. Two ladies had dressed up in what looked like princess outfits. They wore white gloves and socks with tassels.","author":"Hunter Murphy","tags":["french-quarter","louis-armstrong","music","musicians","new-orleans","new-orleans-french-quarter","nola","parade","satchmo","second-line"],"id":356142,"author_id":"Hunter+Murphy"},{"text":"The simple truth of the matter is that people who complain about a peaceful parade which lasts at best one hour in a particular place - ONCE in a whole year - do so out of hatred and intolerance. It isn't just the parade, it is seeing gay and trans people in public - and gay and trans people BEING gay and trans in public. And that is the root of the problem - they HATE gay and trans people.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["being-gay","complain","gay","hate","hatred","intolerance","once","one-hour","parade","peaceful-parade","problem","public","trans","truth","year"],"id":368049,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}