That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute,… — Ronnie Barker Copy Share Image
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When you're at your own parents' funeral, when you're at somebody that you love's funeral, you realize how precious life is. And… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“happy ending. Rest in peace. I jerk back. The beginning of our own happy ending? I don’t remember reading that before, but… — Leah Mercer Copy Share Image
I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family,… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion;… — Johann Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
“Many symbols used at a funeral are designed to help those grieving understand the great mystery surrounding death and encourage them to… — Benjamin A. Saunders Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton is the only ex-president who hasn't planned his own funeral. But, in his defense, in the past he has said… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively.… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
“A guy I grew up with recently died. I attended his funeral, but only because I thought there’d be free food afterwards.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Funerals are for the living, I have always believed, and the job of the eulogist is to acknowledge the enormity of the… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“The funeral was not a funeral. Her family called it a memorial service, because they hadn’t found Diana’s body yet, but everyone… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
I'm going to be cremated from the neck down. And at my funeral, when people are talking about me, they have to… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“A funeral procession, the women scream until they fall down in a faint, the men hold them up, the boys cry silently… — Claire North Copy Share Image
I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
I'd been basically anchored in New York for three years, but I fled to L.A. after the funeral and decided that I… — James Toback Copy Share Image
People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them.… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I will miss my pal Dominick Dunne. I am sure his funeral will be just the sort of event he would have… — Dan Abrams Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“A lot of nonsense is spoken at funerals, especially when the deceased had not been well liked in life. Many euphemisms are… — G.M. Malliet Copy Share Image
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops… — Eva Cassidy Copy Share Image
