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Tag Name "Funeral" (357)

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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
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Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.
Vasily Grossman
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And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.
John Steinbeck
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It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.
Orson Welles
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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
Thomas Harris
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I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals - are Christians but we journalists don't identify them by their religion.
Juan Williams
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The government are considering spending £3million on a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher when she dies. For £3million they could buy everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we'll dig a hole deep enough to deliver her to Satan ourselves.
Frankie Boyle
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Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.
Ally Carter
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
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NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is amazing because that's 10 hours longer than the coverage of Reagan's funeral.
Conan O'Brien
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When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!
Rick Wakeman
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
Charles Lamb
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When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party I've lived the life of ten men. I lived all my dreams and more.
Robbin Crosby
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A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.
Chuck Palahniuk
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At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.
Joan Rivers
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Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
Terry Pratchett
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Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.
Isaac Butt
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds
Zhuangzi
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When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral
Mari Evans
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Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.
Bhagat Singh
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Society makes suicide so romantic. I mean, you watch these TV movies about teen suicide and you want to jump in front of a bus. Because your biggest fantasy is your own funeral. No one will admit to it, but it's true.
Winona Ryder
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