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I don't blame the city for canceling the parade. I just wish they had told us sooner. We could have done something to help raise money for the parade.

James Spitz

We've worked hard to get the message out that Black History Month is something we can all celebrate and learn from. We'd love to invite the community people to participate in the parade.

Jerrod Lockhart

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

Ben Haines

It's the parade; it's our strip launching; it's the launch of a toy line; it's the launch of DVD's, a video game; and it's all these things happening at once, ... You have a pop going on in terms of awareness.

John Friend

I knew it would be a tough game, but I thought we would win. The loss kinda rained on the parade.

Jason Hoseney

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

Kevin Nelson

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

Penny Monahan

You won't see me get excited and going crazy until we win the world championship. It's not perfect until we get that parade down Speer.

Greg Buckner

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.

Tim Ross

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

Maria Gonzalez

We saw a steady parade of deals.

Robert Bach

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.

Pat Livingston

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

John Naisbitt

It's not too late to register for the run or the parade.

Diane Maddox

During the parade, we had 400 [band] posters that were all gone by the end.

John Howell

It's very informal. I have some formalities at the beginning of the parade, but pretty much it's fall in where you fall in.

Cindy Chin

We look at it as we're putting on a parade for television.

Caryn Eaves

After the parade, my manager had the kids park the float in his driveway, where he meticulously removed all the paper towels from the float, folded them neatly and stacked them in his basement.

Gayle Tweeton Parsons

The inaugural parade is like an extension of the president's personality, ... Dwight Eisenhower, for example. A conservative guy. A military man. Short and simple was what his inauguration parade was all about.

Charlie Brotman

It's been a very difficult couple of days, as you can imagine. I wasn't able to accomplish the job I was brought here for. I had a vision for this club and it included a Stanley Cup and a parade.

Marc Crawford

We're also hoping to have food vendors at the civic center prior to the parade.

Mary Dickson

Yes, it will rain on their parade. There's a possibility of some heavy rains in the Pasadena area.

Brad Doyle

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

Willie Harris

That's something that we were talking about doing anyway. This will provide people with something extra to do on either end of the core area of the parade zone.

Mack Bradley

They've also been known to try and ring the beads on the hat plumes. So we no longer wear plumes during the parade.

Cheri Sleeper

I'd go to him for money for a parade and he'd give me an envelope. This town is a small town, so everybody knew him.

John Wilmot

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

Mike Favero

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

George Crane

All children involved in both the egg hunts and the Easter hat parade will receive candy prizes.

Bev Widney

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

Bill Flinn

We're calling it more of a promenade than a parade. We're going around in circles in the parking lot. We'll briefly be on Minidoka and 5th, but then we'll go back around. It's not how far you go, it's how many miles you put on.

Dave Woodhead

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

Shirley Christian

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to -- or can't -- join the Big Parade.

Bette Midler

I'm sorry to see it happen. But who is going to stay in Marina on Labor Day (weekend) to watch a parade?

John Wilmot

We are also looking for volunteers to help plan the parade and assist the parade committee on the day of the event.

Randy Grismer

There were 100 horses in the parade from the Davidson Works alone. About 25,000 people saw the parade which lasted from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Karen Hechler

It's nice how they put it together and the people that came out. I just moved here from Pittsburgh, and in Pittsburgh they don't celebrate Martin Luther King Day. Not with a parade, anyway.

Robert Owens

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

Larry Mckinnon

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

Liz Huff

In the opening parade the athletes carried all their equipment. So you have people dragging their teammates in a bobsled and people carrying their skis and their hockey sticks.

Sue Macy

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.

John J. Sweeney

For the parade, every veteran will receive a grand marshal badge and be in the parade.

Phyllis Helphenstine

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

Don Paight

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.

Helen Ruiz

Mostly we try to stay in the Fremont area for our events and picnics and participating in the John C. Fremont Days parade.

Tom Miller

This is going to be the place to be on Memorial Day, especially for families, a place to see what Memorial Day is all about. It's going to be a very impressive ceremony and parade.

Robert Ford

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.

David Gower

He's a war hero, and we really wanted a hometown guy to be our parade marshal.

Ben Haines

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

Bill Haley

We're extremely relieved. All three things, parade, fair and fireworks, will happen this year as usual.

Patrick Miller

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

Jack Mahoney

My mom is ... one of the people to really believe in the parade.

Tom Taber

The Love Parade is Europe's biggest techno party. It was cancelled in 2005 but we're hoping it will run in 2006.

Thilo Schmied

It's a great place to parade as well as graze. He can keep an eye on his harem, and he can see other elk coming.

Glenn Plum

I just hope that our beloved city will come alive again, which I know it will, because I've never missed a Mardi Gras parade in my life, and I'm not about to start in 2006.

Allen Miller

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.

Nadia Skertich

I've heard some people say we can't do it. But it's a very significant anniversary and I can't imagine it going unmarked without some kind of parade. It's in our soul to have Mardi Gras.

Arthur Hardy

It's surreal feeling, walking in the parade of champions. It was just a phenomenal experience. It definitely surpasses anything I've ever done before athletically.

Brennan Whitman

He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Harpo Marx

It's a great feeling being a Yankee fan. I'm looking forward to the parade on Friday.

Richard Friedman

How many blind people do you need to testify? I don't mean to be grotesque, but that is what it is about. It is a parade of people who have serious injuries. Every family suffered from all of this and we all know it.

Fred Cohn

I believe in the (AOH) club and what we stand for. I like being part of the parade.

Michael Harper

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.

Thomas Foran

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

Richard Sharpstein

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.

Brian Hickman

Sometimes, when there's a parade forming, you have to be able to see that and get in line.

Phil Durocher

They don't have a lot of floodlights because this is a daytime parade. I'm trying to announce who's coming and I couldn't see anything. It was embarrassing.

Charlie Brotman

We are the only ones that do this. Most wouldn't let these wagons out, but we run them in the parade.

Stan Grimes

We come out every year. My son loves the parade. I really come for him.

Margaret Thompson

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.

Donald T. Regan

They wanted to include photos from the bicentennial parade.

Pat Stefano

Hell no was I going to miss this parade.

William Crawford

There's a place in Texas that allows individuals to participate in the parade.

Jeff Landy

After creating the chamber of commerce we want to make history and have a Hispanic heritage parade.

German Lopez

We are also having an outhouse parade and outhouse races.

Brenda Phalin

You're not standing in a mob scene. You actually end up watching the parade.

Barbara Davis

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Amy Goodman

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning . . .

Robert Ludlum

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

Jim Berg

The guns are a part of the parade. That's our tradition.

Jim Tarbet

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

Rich Thompson

This might be the biggest parade we've ever had.

Curtis Anderson

I wasn't even going to do this until 15 minutes before the parade.

Dave Yarger

They're absolutely welcome to be in the parade; we just wanted to keep it upbeat and friendly for the kids.

Bill Enright

It's going to be a big parade. I am just ecstatic that we have had so many people who want to participate in the parade.

Angela Graham

We will also have horses in the parade, which we've never had in the kids parade.

Diane Maddox

After I went to the parade, I just noticed that there wasn't anything in the parade that had the Christmas message in it -- which was about the birth of Christ.

George Morrison

I hope we're good for another 50 years. I hope everybody comes to the parade.

Al Thrasher

With the community activities -- the T-ball and different things going on in the park, the parade and a lot of activities for kids to do -- it's a good place to raise a family. People are really taking advantage of that, and that's great.

John Esser

It's a big family parade. It's a fun atmosphere, everybody's happy.

Kevin Mcdermott

We thought it would be fun to have a parade.

Doris Taylor

We have a very diverse parade. Everyone is welcome.

Dennis Hayes

That's it. Have fun and to serve the community by making a great illuminated parade on Friday night to shine through the City of Pensacola.

Franklin Alvarado

If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow neo-Nazis into their parade? If African-Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku Klux Klan into their parade?

John Dunleavy

At the parade, we will have 32 decorated (golf) carts to represent the 32 counties of Ireland. It (the parade) gets bigger and bigger every year. We always wear our green.

Ken Blair

Whoever wants to be in the parade, should come in.

Luanne Gafford

Every guy in my family has had something to do with the parade. We've all had a piece of the parade.

John Clancy

We're going all the way. It's a done deal. Put 'Gladiators' on the rings and set up the parade.

Bon Bean

Our parade will go on. Even if it rains. That is good luck.

Dwayne Hultquist

It was a very big deal. There was a parade, with horses and floats.

Harvey Bailey

We have the biggest party at Blue Mountain. New Year's celebrations start on the 30th, when we have our torchlight parade.

Shannon Bell

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Jerry Chin

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.

Tom Poti

Harold was the grand marshal for that July 4 parade. We decided to have him ride his own 1920 truck for the parade.

Dennis Kessler

I want to be in the parade of champions.

Brice Boling

We just have to build that parade. We line people up and try to keep it in some sort of order.

Buddy Phillips

The Holiday Bowl Parade is a fantastic parade.

Pat Monahan

Basically, it will be about a two-minute parade. Depending on how fast the driver goes.

Jamie Brazil

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.

Haile Gebrselassie

They decided they were going to parade anyway, because they had bought all their costumes.

Karen T. Leathem

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.

Dennis Wilson

I can't describe the feeling I had during the Parade of Champions. There were so many people. I've never experienced a crowd like that before. It was incredible.

Chris Dempsey

It is just not normal at the Cologne Rose Monday parade to be blasphemous.

Sigrid Krebs

At the end of his pacification program, 7 1/2 million Indians were dead. He deserves no holiday, and he deserves no parade.

Glenn Morris

I've been trying to get them here for the past 12 years. It's going to be the best parade we've ever had.

Ernie Hartman

During the parade, we didn't have any foot traffic. But after the parade, our entire store was filled with people that didn't even know we were here.

Erin Archbold

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

Ellen Hoffman

It was a very good festival. The parade was huge.

Edith Volmar

We try to draw the families. This is a family-oriented parade.

Ed Kelley

You see a parade of animals leaving. Many times you see them come right back.

Zachary Prusak