Marching On Quotes:

It was a long hard bumpy road, but this great country kept me inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world.

- Stompin' Tom Connors

topic: Country, Character, Marching On, Great Country, Devoted

I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move.

- Craig Ferguson

source: "He's Just Teasing / `Drew Carey' actor Craig Ferguson plays a gay hairdresser in a new comedy" by Mick LaSalle, www.sfgate.com. January 23, 2000.

topic: Moving, Boys, Marching On

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.

- Zygmunt Bauman

source: Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

topic: Marching On, Progress, Lines, Pendulums

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ...

- Julia Ward Howe

topic: God, War, Eye, Marching On

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

- George H. W. Bush

topic: War, Vietnam, Way, Marching On, Vietnam Veteran

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.

- Julia Ward Howe

topic: Freedom, Men, Sea, Marching On

Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Speech on the steps of the State Capitol Building, Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965.

topic: Dream, Lying, Hands, Marching On

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Fire, Mountain, Weight, Marching On, Quiet Room

Fascism is not [only] squads of the SA or the Blackshirts marching on the streets. Fascism is officials, in uniforms ordering what is capitalist supposed to do with "his" factory, and how he should father "his" children and occasionally - how many Jews (or anti-Semites) should be sent to Auschwitz.

- Janusz Korwin-Mikke

topic: Children, Father, Squad, Marching On

Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!

- William Lloyd Garrison

source: "Valedictory". The last issue of "The Liberator" newspaper, fair-use.org. January 01, 1866.

topic: Lying, Men, Voice, Marching On, Herod

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is wisdom to the mighty, he is succour to the brave, So the world shall be his footstool, and the soul of Time his slave, Our God is marching on.

- Julia Ward Howe

topic: Morning, Brave, Soul, Marching On

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. Oh! be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on.

- Julia Ward Howe

source: Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.42

topic: Heart, Men, Feet, Marching On, Sifting

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.

- Julia Ward Howe

topic: Crush, Hero, Grace, Marching On

I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.

- Julia Ward Howe

topic: Dew, Lamps, Evening, Marching On

John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.

- Richard Corliss

topic: Dream, Book, Home, Marching On, Perfidy

We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.

- Yasser Arafat

topic: Israel, Jerusalem, Hell, Marching On

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Doctors, Poison, Indispensable, Marching On

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Plot, Elements, Detectives, Marching On, Element Of Surprise

Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.

- Ita Buttrose

topic: Women, Years, Imagination, Marching On