Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.

In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

Easter egg hunts and parades are nothing new to any household or city, however nobody does it better then the Big Apple.

While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died not just those fallen in service to our country.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.