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• 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.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Alzheimer's, Cells

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• 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.

  Lee Marvin

  Girl, Ghouls, Two

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• Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

  Rumi

  Home, Eulogy, Headstone

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Giving, May, Hats

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• You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Death, Hilarious

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Bells

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• 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

  Tobe Hooper

  Mother, Baby, Names

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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Death, Witty

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 28 Nov. 1954

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• 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.

  Steve Buyer

  Military, America, Worry

  Congressional Record 109th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 152, No. 66, May 24, 2006.

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

  Richard Miller

  Uncles, Men, Inheritance

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• When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

  Natalie Portman

  Years, Grandpa, Littles

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  Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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

  Jimmy Breslin

  Night, Firsts, Andrew

  "A talk with Jimmy Breslin, New York's "New Yorkiest" writer" by Jerry Schwartz, www.businessinsider.com. March 19, 2017.

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Done, Tickets, Programming

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• 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.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Past, Cities

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.211, Booklassic

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• If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

  Clarence Day

  Funny, Death, Humor

  1935 Life With Father,'Father interferes'.

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• If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Remembrance

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• 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.

  George Eliot

  Night, Voice, Silence

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3820, Delphi Classics

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• I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

  Thomas Lynch

  People, Mourning, Retail

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

  Charles Lamb

  Laughing, Awful, Make Me Laugh

  Letter to Robert Southey, 9 August 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 181

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Eulogy, Defense, Belated

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

  St. Jerome

  Mother, Men, Law

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