Gay Pride Parade

Famous quotes containing the words gay, pride and/or parade:

“Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)

“Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)