Funeral Quotes

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.'

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.