#funeral

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#bank #could #drove #father #funeral

My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick. ↗

— Josh Groban

#ever #funeral #good #hit #me

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ↗

— Grace Hansen

#except #flowers #funeral #get #just

A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have not withheld from me Their high hospitality. So, with face lit with delight And all gratitude, I stay Yet to press their hands and say, Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#funeral #poetry #death

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#fancy #funeral #great #i #my own

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#anything #done #ever #funeral #got

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral. ↗

— James Larkin

#danger #duty #faults #funeral #go

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#bad taste #being #funeral #like #perpetual

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#beautiful #buried #casket #corpse #cried

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.' ↗

— Peter King

#because #dump #funeral #george #go