Quotes About Funeral

Speaker Reed's] wit was brilliant and usually cruel... Asked to attend the funeral of a political enemy, he refused, "but that does not mean to say I do not heartily approve of it.

Firenza said, "I kind of like Pete. He's a funny guy." "We'll send him a nice wreath," Bocatelli said. "The family will appreciate it.

You're dead, son. Get yourself buried.

The only exercise I take is acting as pall-bearer to my friends who have indulged in strenuous exercise!

the boy was given the signal honor of delivering a eulogy at her funeral.

Caesar was cremated on the spot.

Augustus' body was laid on a pyre in the ustrinum, or crematorium, next to the mausoleum.

Diana Cowper had planned her funeral and she was going to need it. She was murdered about six hours later that same day.

That's the thing about funerals. They're completely hypocritical. Everyone says how wonderful the deceased was, how kind, how generous when, deep down, they know it's not true.

She wasn't wearing her glasses and she destroyed my life. I went to the funeral because I was delighted she was dead and I wanted to see her put in the ground. I thought it would give me closure.

He described Alan as a popular writer whose books had given pleasure to so many millions of people around the world. It was as if Alan was being introduced on a Radio 4 panel show rather than at his own funeral.

I want to be buried in a cardboard coffin.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.

I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.

A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.

I had this struggle of, what do I do to make sure my brother is still part of everything that I do? As I was driving up to his funeral, it hit me. I'm going to wear his number.

I remember watching that scene in 'My Girl' where Anna Chlumsky cries at a funeral. I would cry with her and be like, 'Yeah, I think I could do that. I could do a funeral scene.'

I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.

I mean I'm one of those people that laugh at a funeral. And it's always the worst time, but there's always a place to find something funny.

If you look there is humor in every situation like your Aunt eating up all the food at the funeral or the lady sitting next to you at the bus stop.

The female sense of sharing originated as familial sharing—care of the young, the gathering and preparation of food, sharing joys, love and sorrows. Funeral lamentation originated with women. Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant.

On the Funeral Plain we learned to despise the men of the communities.