“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. ” — George Ade Copy Share Image
The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham,… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
“If it’s been more than 24 hours, you call the cops and I’ll buy the flowers. I’ll meet you at church, first… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Science advances one funeral at a time. Only when one generation passes away do new theories have a chance to root out… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We were heading into the clumsy territory of my mother’s funeral, stretched-out silences, wrong smiles, the place where words didn’t work.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I had this struggle of, what do I do to make sure my brother is still part of everything that I do?… — Taysom Hill Copy Share Image
To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No,… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the… — Isaac Butt Copy Share Image
Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral.… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
We just found out my little brother has a peanut allergy, which is very serious I know. But still I feel like… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music,… — Wynonna Judd Copy Share Image
“suddenly remembered a beautiful verse by the great Lebanese philosopher Kahlil Gibran: “Mayhap a funeral among men is a wedding feast among… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
I don't share photos of people grieving leaving a funeral or outside of a hospital when a loved one is sick... You… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot.… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“What the hell are you doing here? You weren't on the guest list. Hell, you people aren't on anybody's guest list. If… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
I want a state funeral with bells ringing across the land! Then I'd love the congregation to do the hokey cokey and… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The government are considering spending £3million on a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher when she dies. For £3million they could buy everyone… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
“I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Who am I to decide what someone should or shouldn’t do? People skip funerals and memorials all the time, for all sorts… — Elle Kennedy Copy Share Image