Quotes About Funeral Service

#1. The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. At Ken Lay's funeral service the minister compared him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The difference is Dr. King had a dream, Ken Lay had a scheme.

Jay Leno

#3. I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them ... they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

John Irving

#4. The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

Eugene H. Peterson

#5. If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#6. No money, no church service, no eulogy,no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit. p 354

Abraham Verghese

#7. Well, I like empowering my clients.

Gloria Allred

#8. Christians have no greater ally than Israel.

Ted Cruz

#9. He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't.

He hadn't cried at Robbie Morell's funeral.

So he wasn't going to now.

Luke Taylor

#10. History is an ongoing novel, but if we don't learn from what we read and see we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history.

Tony Brooks

#11. My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.

Abraham Verghese

#12. Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question; secondly, regard sex knowledge as exactly like any other knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

#13. A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#14. 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

#15. If you are an adolescent, here is the trick to being neither quite a nerd nor quite a jock: be no one.
It is easier than you think.

David Foster Wallace

#16. I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents' attention was to disappoint them or fail. But by the time I finally realized that, succeeding was already a habit too ingrained to break.

Sarah Dessen

#17. I want to give [my records] all away before some fool plays disco at my funeral, and then the record gets stuck, and nobody can tell, and the service goes on forever!

Robert Patrick

#18. 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

#19. People who say "it is impossible", should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#20. There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

W. Somerset Maugham

#21. I knew they made that up, I knew it was wrong, and they left things out, too, but there was no way of checking.

Margaret Atwood

#22. we cannot be humble except by enduring humiliations." How

Ryan Holiday

#23. I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism.

Holly Robinson Peete