Funeral Quotes - Page 19

• The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.

  Peggy Noonan

  Faces, Nervous, Easy

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

  Karl Shapiro

  Devil, Finals, Flags

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• Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

  William Cornelius Van Horne

  Daughter, Home, Men

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• About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.

  Ken Loach

  Accepting, Wanted

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• Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Heaven, Dying

  'Epitaph on an Infant' (1794)

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• Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Flames, Wings, Shining

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.117

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• Science advances funeral by funeral

  Max Planck

  Economics

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• Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

  Amy Dickinson

  Real, Women, Figures

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• My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.

  Dana White

  Dad, Kids, Mma

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• President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

  Dana Milbank

  Sacrifice, Talking, Iraq

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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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• I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Song, Order, Dawn

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• At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Dad, Years, Cry

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Father, Real, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Growing Up, Growing, Bigs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

  Bernard Ramm

  Tombstone, Cutting, Inscriptions

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• Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Dream, Spring

  Matthew Arnold, Miriam Farris Allott, Robert Henry Super (1986). “Matthew Arnold”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.

  Hank Aaron

  Years, Two, Long

  "Home Run King". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. September 10, 2013.

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• Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

  George Eliot

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4101, Delphi Classics

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• People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone inclined to widen heaven's doors. I don't want to leave folks wondering whether I made it.

  Philip Gulley

  Doors, People, Giving

  Philip Gulley (2009). “For Everything a Season: Simple Musings on Living Well”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

  Josephine Baker

  America, Promise, Scared

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• Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.

  Anil Dash

  Morning, Home, Lists

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2013

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• I've been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I've even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You're waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn't need to be there.

  Drea de Matteo

  Son, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.

  Tom Lehrer

  Thinking, Worry, May

  Song: We Will All Go Together When We Go, Album: More of Tom Lehrer

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• A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

  Ann Landers

  Cancer, Grief, Fire

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