Chris Young Quotes

I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!

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• Love is the funeral of hearts.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Hearts

• My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Father

• Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Fear
  • Place
  • Funeral

• I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Home
  • Parents

• The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Sick
  • Achievement
  • Funeral

• Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Life
  • Me

• One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Work
  • Me
  • Funeral

• If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• The right, uplifted foreleg of the horse Suggested that, at the final funeral, The music halted and the horse stood still.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Horse
  • Funeral

• In restaurants we argue over which of us will pay for your funeral though the real question is whether or not I will make you immortal.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Real
  • Question
  • Funeral

• Gothic script seemed to warp every letter that passed through the door of the funeral parlour, as if death were a German village.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Death
  • Door
  • German

• 'And if I die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take but please don't cry, just know that I have made these songs for you, and if I die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take cause I'm ready for a funeral'

  

  Kid Cudi
  • Soul
  • Die
  • Funeral

• You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical. But when you think about it, a bit of information is a surprise. If you already knew what the message contained, there would be no new information in it.

  

  James Gleick

• You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Death
  • Funeral

• I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when people get skull tattoos.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • People
  • Father
  • Funeral

• But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Mother
  • Law
  • Funeral

• There are no nail salons in Paris - it is very expensive to do a manicure. I sometimes get one done.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Done
  • Paris

• To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Heart
  • Lonely
  • Funeral

• I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.

  

  Alexi Giannoulias
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Past

• Perhaps the windWails so in winter for the summers dead,And all sad sounds are nature's funeral criesFor what has been and is not.

  

  George Eliot
  • Nature
  • Sad
  • Winter

• He will come up to the Capitol, as far as we know right now, by a procession probably Wednesday morning and lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday and Thursday, and, we think, a funeral at the National Cathedral on Friday.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Friday

• History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • History
  • Year

• Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

  

  Mary Matalin
  • People
  • Good
  • Nature

• I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!

  

  Chris Young
  • Funeral