Pallbearers Quotes

#1. At 2:00 sharp on the afternoon of his internment, with his body resting in a casket in the front room of his home, the pallbearers--all bridge players--stuck a deck of cards in Mr. Hampton's cold hands, shut the lid over his head, and played bridge.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#2. I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.

David Wojnarowicz

#3. I'm never going to be fat - never again. I'm going to make it easy on my pallbearers.

Al Sharpton

#4. Pride is the king of vices ... it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul ... other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

Fulton J. Sheen

#5. The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

Ayad Akhtar

#6. Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.

J.K. Rowling

#7. If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

Paulo Coelho

#8. We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

Ross Macdonald

#9. Good God, the lad is a lass!

Margaret Mallory

#10. Do not despise your gift. We are all valuable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.

Amit Kalantri

#12. I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#13. Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson