Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valerie Harper

Don’t go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day,

Vladimir Lenin

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

Wayne Dyer

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

Rodney Atkins

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

Zhuangzi

Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds?

Octave Mirbeau

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Paul Samuelson

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

Lin Yutang

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Andruw Jones

Hank Aaron's in the Hall of Fame; it's a good record. But I don't worry about it. My goal this year was not to hit 40 home runs, but just to improve my consistency. When the season's over, that's when I'll look at that stuff.

Gary Hatch

He's been one of my hall of fame guys. Stephen worked his tail off to become a starter. It didn't happen until his senior year.

Jerry Colangelo

He was looking though the glass at the photos that were up on the wall in their hall of fame. He said, 'Dad, I want to come here and do what you did to follow you.' I said, 'No, Bryan. That was my life. You're going to have to live your own life.

Robert Pattinson

I suppose I should understand it [fame] better by this point, but I really don't.

Rod Stewart

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Zachary Quinto

My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame, so the first show I did in New York was an ensemble piece at an Off-Broadway theater, and I wanted to make sure that it was just about the play and about the experience.

Mickey Mantle

I had it all and blew it.

Publilius Syrus

Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.

Little Richard

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

William James

Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.

Walter Gropius

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

Karl Kraus

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

Henry Vaughan

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

Simone de Beauvoir

immortality is a terrible curse.

Stephen King

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.