Funeral Quotes

People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.

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.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.

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.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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.

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.

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.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.