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I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.
After Margaret Thatcher's funeral, I spoke at a tribute meeting organised by her supporters in a pub next to St Paul's.
Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.
the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.
I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.
The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.
In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.
The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.
I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.
I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
I tweeted that I wanted Little Mix's 'Touch' played at my funeral - I think that'd be a great song to send me into the abyss.
Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.
A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.
You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.
At Mom's funeral, mourner after mourner spoke about what a wonderful teacher she was. She was certainly devoted to her students.
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.
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.
Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.
We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".
Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen
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.
It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.
Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.
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'm not allergic to fashion. I'm just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they're going to a funeral or to court.
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.
I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.
You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.
One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.
There are probably about 50 comedians who would come to my 50th birthday party but I'm not sure how many of them would come to my funeral.
In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.
When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.
I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.
I mean I'm one of those people that laugh at a funeral. And it's always the worst time, but there's always a place to find something funny.
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
I was still a recruit in the Boston Police Academy when I attended my first police funeral. It was September 28, 1970. I remember it still.