Quotes About Honoring The Dead

#1. You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

Alice Walker

#2. Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no answers to find? How do you assimilate that kind of loss without losing your mind?

Rob Thomas

#3. A perpetual scandal: honoring the dead.

Marty Rubin

#4. Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

Anthony Kennedy

#5. Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

Harbhajan Singh

#6. I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.

Ursula Hegi

#7. Ego has no senses.

Toba Beta

#8. The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

Dennis Miller

#9. When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

Jeremy Clarkson

#10. The fallout caused by denial was inherited by later generations of Armenians, linking them to the fateful days of 1915, and compelling them to set the record straight.

Michael Bobelian

#11. God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#12. Don't leave me again, he tells me, only he doesn't just do it once. He says it over and over, until I'm melting. He's going to have to let go, because hands traditionally can't hold onto liquidised people.

Charlotte Stein

#13. You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Charles Olson