Funeral Quotes - page 2

Science advances one funeral at a time. (Max Planck)
I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life. View quote
Markus Zusak
If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again. View quote
Stan Laurel
It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality. View quote
Susanna Clarke
Nice day for a funeral. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral. View quote
Demetri Martin
I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father. View quote
Alexi Giannoulias
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness. View quote
Ben Casnocha
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. View quote
Gwen Moore
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. (Harold Brodkey)
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah. View quote
Jesse Eisenberg
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. View quote
Jimmy Breslin
As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over. View quote
Lee Marvin
A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success. View quote
Marvin Sapp
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam. View quote
Olin Miller
If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.' View quote
Peter T. King
Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective. View quote
Patti Davis
When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral! View quote
Rick Wakeman
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration. View quote
Steve Buyer
Funeral by funeral, theory advances. (Paul Samuelson)
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. View quote
George Eliot
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. View quote
George Eliot
That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made to grieve on account of me. And that I be not bury'd in consecrated ground. And that no sexton be asked to toll the bell. And that nobody is wished to see my dead body. And that no murners walk behind me at my funeral. And that no flours be planted on my grave. And that no man remember me. View quote
Thomas Hardy
That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said. View quote
Sylvia Plath