Funeral Oration Quotes

#1. An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

Peter Utley

#2. it is not surprising that some, such as the historian John R. Vile, suggest we consider the concession as a form of military surrender or even a funeral oration. Just as after a war, the public wants peace after a presidential campaign. They hope that politicians will emulate that most

Scott Farris

#3. Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

Louis Gustave Vapereau

#4. Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

Edward Dahlberg

#5. Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Marco Rubio

#6. Look in the mirror. You must first love yourself before you can receive true love from someone else.

Jon Jones

#7. I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

Paula McLain

#8. In the last few days, you've made me feel ... alive. You make me feel beautiful and intelligent and wanted, and no matter how hard I try, I'll never be able to tell you how much that's meant to me.

Nicholas Sparks

#9. I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

Virginia Madsen

#10. I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

Rand Paul

#11. Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

Hank Green

#12. If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.

Gregory Bateson

#13. Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

Rosemary Mahoney

#14. Giving a man a fish feeds him for one meal. Teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. As parents and gospel instructors, you and I are not in the business of distributing fish; rather, our work is to help our children learn 'to fish.'

David A. Bednar

#15. We move like the chess game, first the white... then the black... the moves are too fast so far it's difficult to see it. But it's logical, isn't it?

Deyth Banger

#16. If I'm doing my hair myself, I just wash it and let it naturally dry. I'm actually quite good at doing hair; if I wear it up I usually do it myself.

Alexa Chung

#17. We're born alone and we die alone. So in between, let's spend time with people that make us feel good ... or at least put-out.

Dov Davidoff

#18. D-Dorothy - " My throat burns. It's the only way I know the words are leaving it. "Guess we ... shouldn't have left Oz. ...

Alexandra Bracken