Ancestors Quote by Anthony Gonzalez

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

— Kristin Hersh

I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene…

— Andy Dunn

The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always…

— Tea Obreht

In China there is a holiday around the death of your ancestors where everyone goes to the cemetery. It's a celebratory thing. It's very…

— Lulu Wang

This is a day not of celebration but of national memory. It's a day when we learn, and learn again, of the horror of…

— Bob Carr

When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great…

— Joseph Addison

Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for…

— Howard Zinn

There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.

— Washington Irving

We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is…

— Clive Barker

We saw we conquered and lived another day for the day that we die is the day we get honored for our doing

— Unknoe

“People don’t gather after a death to mourn, but rather to reaffirm why life matters and to remember to exult in the only one…

— Heather Lende

Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in…

— Joanne Harris