Deceased Quotes - Page 2

• Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother's devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got him into a special school that turned him around - under a government program for the children of deceased veterans. He was repeatedly asked at press conferences why he would then turn around and support draconian cuts in federal funding for education. He never had an answer.

  Gail Collins

  Mother, Children, School

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I'm of the opinion that it is always a kind and appropriate decision to get in touch with someone who's lost a loved one to remind them that you're thinking of them and have fond memories of the deceased.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Memories, Thinking, Decision

  "Gone From the Chapel". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 22, 2016.

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• Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

  Anton Chekhov

  Children, Expression, Silence

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• I think we need to not look at sorrow and happiness as opposites that cannot co-exist. They can and do co-exist. I have preached many memorial services where you see the sadness and the tears for those attending, and then you see how quick people are to laugh as they remember funny and happy things about their loved ones. And if the deceased knew Christ, those in attendance are able to rejoice as they anticipate the reunion that will one day come.

  Randy Alcorn

  Sadness, Thinking, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Peter Norman is a humanitarian, and I say "is" because in my life, Peter Norman is never deceased. He's always going to live with me.

  John Carlos

  Humanitarian, Peter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

  Guru Nanak

  Son, Men, Issues

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• Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Grief, Mourning, Members

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• There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Men, May

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 80

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• Odors can be highly transitory, depending on the air currents. If this is happening in your house, ask if there are any possessions of that deceased loved one still around. If it happens elsewhere, consider just how many millions of people use the same perfume or smoke the same brand of cigar as someone you knew.

  Seth Shostak

  Air, People, House

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• The spirit walks of every day deceased.

  Edward Young

  Spirit, Walks

  Edward Young (1837). “The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion”, p.23

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• The two black lines on the armband means that they're the deceased's family. One line means they are either friends or acquaintances. One line of the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines, they'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life, and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.

  Yoon Sang-hyun

  Farewell, Heart, Mean

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• You don't want to be like the motion picture exec who had so many people at his funeral, but they were there just make sure he was dead. Or how about the guy who, at his funeral, the priest said, "Won't anyone stand up and say anything nice for the deceased?" and finally someone said, "Well, his brother was worse."

  Charlie Munger

  Brother, Nice, People

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• During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.

  Tom Rachman

  Writing, Past, Careers

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• The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Character, Long, President

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• There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant.

  Gabriel Mann

  Fashion, Genius, Passed Away

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• Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?

  John D. MacDonald

  Country, Passion, Gun

  "The Scarlet Ruse". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1973.

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• 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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• My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

  Woody Allen

  Food, Funeral, Cooking

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• I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Kenzaburo Oe (1998). “A Quiet Life”, p.69, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Empires, Dominion

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.566, Broadview Press

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• Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.

  Roger Bacon

  Philosophy, Perfection, Age

  "Opus Tertium" by Roger Bacon, (p. 70), (c. 1267).

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• My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.

  Victoria Clark

  Mom, Real, Grandmother

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• My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.

  Mark Ronson

  Girl, Grandmother, Thinking

  "Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto.

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• Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire.

  Ian Stevenson

  Suicide, Suicidal, Self

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• And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Moments, Breathe

  Song: Heartz of Men

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