Death Quotes - page 66

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave. (Ron Kovic)
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness. View quote
Ronald Blythe
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. View quote
Ruth Ann Minner
I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me. View quote
Ryan Murphy
From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical. View quote
Rex Hunt
The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level. View quote
Ric Keller
All I can say is, death is a part of life. View quote
Simon Kinberg
I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. View quote
Sonny Rollins
A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's. View quote
Stan Sakai
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me. View quote
Stephen Rea
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody. (Steve Earle)
Love's stronger than fear and death. View quote
Steve Hackett
It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do. View quote
Steven Lopez
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax. View quote
Susan Hayward
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. View quote
Suzanne Fields
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. View quote
Sam Snead
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. View quote
Sammy Davis, Jr.
You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes. View quote
Sean Taylor
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. View quote
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. View quote
Tim Kaine
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God. (Timothy Radcliffe)
Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans. View quote
Todd Tiahrt
Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion. View quote
Todd Tiahrt
The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth. View quote
Todd Tiahrt
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building. View quote
Todd Tiahrt