Best Memorial Service Quotes

#1. I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.

Charles Saatchi

#2. Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

Robert Byrne

#3. Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

Derek Jarman

#4. Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

Anne Tyler

#5. Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

Courteney Cox

#6. If you're going to retire, retire early.

Hayao Miyazaki

#7. While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.

Allen West

#8. To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. Why do we so often find the flaws in people while they are here and finally see the good in them when they are gone?

Christine Edwards

#10. If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

Marvin J. Ashton

#11. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.

Ray Charles

#12. The funeral was not a funeral. Her family called it a memorial service, because they hadn't found Diana's body yet, but everyone in New Iberia called the hour at St. Peter's a funeral, either out of respect or ignorance. The boundary was hazy.

Lauren Kate

#13. I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

Marc Maron

#14. Liar. You've loved me since I held your hand at your mother's memorial service when you were five years old.

Kristen Ashley

#15. I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

Lynn Flewelling

#16. I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it.

Will Hobbs

#17. If people knew how many people, especially the very rich and powerful ones, went to psychics, their jaws would drop through the floor,

Carl Sagan

#18. Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

Harry S. Truman

#19. A president can't go to every memorial service.

Nancy Gibbs

#20. Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ transformed himself through surgery and perhaps female hormones from a brown-skinned African American male to a chalk-faced androgynous ghoul with no clear sexual identity.

Chris Hedges

#21. Tim Russert is dead. But the room was alive. You can't work it too hard at a memorial service, obviously. It's the kind of thing people notice.

Mark Leibovich

#22. If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#23. There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the house, writes the author in all seriousness describing a memorial service for a medical school's cadavers.

Mary Roach

#24. Paul Theroux was sitting in the pew (at Bruce Chatwin's memorial service) behind him. "I suppose we'll be here for you next week, Salman," he said.

Salman Rushdie

#25. Mary could never spare time; but the remaining five set off together.

Jane Austen

#26. Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was "a way out of loneliness."
(NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.)

Jonathan Franzen

#27. He who runs from challenges walks away from success.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. I enjoy doing all different types of movies even though I am the most comfortable with comedy.

Adam Sandler

#29. See you and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best, so we can pull on through, whatever tears at us, whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around.

Dave Matthews Band