Words matter. These are the best Funerals Quotes from famous people such as Rodney Atkins, Clarence Darrow, Patty Griffin, Peter York, P. J. O’Rourke, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
I have been told that I have been played at – my music’s been played at funerals, deaths, births, weddings. Weddings, I find very surprising.
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.
Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
Bollywood is a great place. You can expect support for award ceremonies, weddings, and funerals.
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
I’ve been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death… I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that’s rock n’ roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.
Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in ’74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don’t think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn’t come to mind at all. I guess I’m really blessed that way.
I’m a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
I cry at births and not at funerals.
I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.
I don’t want the sort of funeral that everybody else has, but there is one hymn, a good Protestant hymn, and it is sung at all Protestant funerals, and I think I should have it sung at mine. It is called ‘The Day Thou Gave Us Lord is Ended’.
I’m more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It’s not a retail experience. It’s an existential one.
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
What does homophobia look like when it’s stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who’ve died fighting for our country.
In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don’t play music at funerals.
I can’t admit things; that’s why I can’t go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly.
Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book that is most often used at Christian funerals.
You know you’re getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
I’ve been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy’s funeral.
I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter’s work is that she couldn’t read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. – the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages – in pictures.
You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.
If you don’t go to other men’s funerals, they won’t go to yours.
Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.
Funerals are a pagan rite. There’s not any doubt about it.
I remember feeling like we at WBC were a persecuted minority, triumphant in the face of evil people ‘worshipping the dead’ as we picketed funerals or rejoiced at the destruction of the Twin Towers.
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.
Military families miss out on experiences that most civilian families do not: birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, funerals and even the births of their children.
People deal with death differently; some even laugh at funerals.
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.