Funeral Quotes - Page 23

• Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Clothes, Ties, People

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• When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

  Steve Martin

  Kings, Thinking, Nuts

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• I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.

  Karin Fossum

  Blow, Impact, Years

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• I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals - are Christians but we journalists don't identify them by their religion.

  Juan Williams

  Christian, Military, Gay

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• Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Mean, Sorrow, Remember

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

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• I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Mother, Cutting, Years

  Rose Wilder Lane's diary entry, December 9, 1933.

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• Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Military, Two

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 8, (p. 204), 1969.

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• One of the dogs in the competition, a Portuguese Water Dog, is related to President Obama's dog, Bo. But they only see each other at funerals and weddings.

  David Letterman

  Dog, Water, Competition

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• I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Father, Remember, Metaphor

  "The Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 13, 2009.

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• To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn.

  Ann Coulter

  Cheer, Pain, War

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• The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.

  Charles Dickens

  Dark, Night, Wind

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.482

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• Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has released all of his emails. I'd like to release all of my emails. I've got nothing but emails about low-cost funerals and Viagra.

  David Letterman

  Hopeful, Presidential, Email

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• Life's too short for a funeral.

  Bill Smith

  Death, Suicide, Too Short

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• If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?

  J. Lynn

  Nice, Fall, Necks

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• Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Book, Heaven, Secret

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• Why should i go to his funeral? He ain't comming to mine.

  Daniel Nielsen

  Funny, Should, Mines

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• One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.

  Rajneesh

  Life, One Day, Disappear

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• 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.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Goodbye, Father, Past

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• You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Directors, Want

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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

  Plutarch

  Life, Pain, Grief

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• never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Writing, Lines, Ashamed

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of the Island”, p.208, Youcanprint

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• But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn't like. But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother's funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry - until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Mother, Reading, Writing

  "Ella Enchanted". Book by Gail Carson Levine, 1997.

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• Low on his funeral couch he lies!

  Thomas Gray

  Lying, Deceit, Lows

  1757 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, l.63-6.

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• I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

  Gloria Steinem

  Graduation, Memorable, Bats

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• That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Rose, Afternoon

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.103, Hamilton Books

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