Funeral Quotes

I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

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.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

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.'

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

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.

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.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

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.

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

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.

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.