Funeral Quotes - Page 14

• Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Laughter, Nice, Missing

  "Obituary". web.archive.org. December 30, 2003.

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• I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

  Anna Chancellor

  Four, Well Known, Grants

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

  John Irving

  Thinking, Hymns, Want

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.

  Enoch Powell

  Insane, Purpose, Permit

  John Enoch Powell (1991). “Reflections of a Statesman: The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell”, Bellew Publishing

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• [That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheism, Body, Speech

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• Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

  William Cornelius Van Horne

  Daughter, Home, Men

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• I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Father, Real, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Growing Up, Growing, Bigs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

  Bernard Ramm

  Tombstone, Cutting, Inscriptions

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• And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Food, Believe

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.173, Penguin

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• Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at both, our senses are sharpened and we register much more than usual - a striking face or hair-do, the wind's behaviour, a bird singing.

  Michael Longley

  Fun, Hair, Wind

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Dream, Spring

  Matthew Arnold, Miriam Farris Allott, Robert Henry Super (1986). “Matthew Arnold”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.

  Hank Aaron

  Years, Two, Long

  "Home Run King". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. September 10, 2013.

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• Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

  George Eliot

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4101, Delphi Classics

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• At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Dad, Years, Cry

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.'

  Peter King

  Son, People, Water

  "King: Torture trial should spark "scorched earth"". Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. March 23, 2009.

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• About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.

  Ken Loach

  Accepting, Wanted

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• Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Heaven, Dying

  'Epitaph on an Infant' (1794)

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• Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Flames, Wings, Shining

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.117

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• Science advances funeral by funeral

  Max Planck

  Economics

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• Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

  Amy Dickinson

  Real, Women, Figures

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• My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.

  Dana White

  Dad, Kids, Mma

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• President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

  Dana Milbank

  Sacrifice, Talking, Iraq

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• You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

  Charles Williams

  Baseball, Rainy Day, Weather

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• People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone inclined to widen heaven's doors. I don't want to leave folks wondering whether I made it.

  Philip Gulley

  Doors, People, Giving

  Philip Gulley (2009). “For Everything a Season: Simple Musings on Living Well”, p.26, Harper Collins

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