Quotes about Funerals

Madonna Ciccone

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

Tom Junod

There are no foodies at funerals.

Albert Brooks

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

John Green

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

Vladimir Lenin

In the end a funeral requiem will be sung over the Soviet Republic or over world capitalism. As long as capitalism remains we cannot live in peace. In the end one or the other will triumph.

Vladimir Lenin

John McCain

The Vice President has two duties: To daily inquire about the health of the President and to attend the funerals of third world dictators, neither of which interest me.

Finley Peter Dunne

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

Dunne put these words in the mouth of his famous character, Mr. Dooley. The part of the quotation, “comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable” without the accent, became the motto for many journalists. This is the earliest use we have found, but it ironically was not very complimentary to newspapers.

Megan Phelps-Roper

My first memories are of picketing ex-servicemen's funerals and telling their families they were going to burn in hell.

Ali Smith

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

Saoirse Ronan

What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.

Ethel Waters

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

Lin Yutang

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Tennessee Williams

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

Hedy Lamarr

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

James Baker

George W. Bush's motto is "You die, and I'll fly.

As Vice President, George W. Bush represented the U. S. at the funerals of many foreign dignitaries:

Montesquieu

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Anthony Horowitz

Nice day for a funeral.

Big Freedia

It has to do a lot more than just twerking. It's feel good music; it makes people have a good time. It doesn't matter what type of situation they're in, we bounce all around New Orleans. Weddings, birthday parties, funerals. The whole nine yards, and it's a happy music, it turns people from a frown to a happy smile.