Memorial Services Quotes

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

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

No man wants more war if he's planned memorial services for fallen comrades, carried their flag-draped caskets off a plane, and buried them at Arlington National Cemetery.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then, ten grand?

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they're alive.

I'll tell you what makes my blood boil?... Crematoriums.

To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn.

How families deal with loss, everyone has their own process.

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

I believe every citizen feels the same way about the Sewol Ferry incident.

Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?

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

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here.

Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.

As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

Politicians didn’t want to talk to their constituents about body bags that would be coming back.

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.