Quotes tagged ‘Eulogy’

“And it didn't matter how stupid he had to get... or if I was sittin' there concentrating as hard as I could... on the computer to write a letter to a senator or congressman or something else, he'd come and rub them balls in my face.”

— Joe Exotic , imdb.com

“Mufasa's death was a terrible tragedy; but to lose Simba, who had barely begun to live... For me it is a deep personal loss. So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne. Yet, out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era... in which lion and hyena come to…”

— Irene Mecchi, Scar (voice), Jeremy Irons, imdb.com

“So I get to put on a suit and talk about how great you are? I was hoping to avoid that until your funeral.”

— Neil Simon, Oscar Madison, Matthew Perry, imdb.com

“You died on a Saturday morning. And I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Momma always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest, he's doing just fine. About to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lu…”

— Winston Groom, Charlie Peters, Eric Roth, Ernest Thompson, Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, amazon.com

“I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

“In his grave, we praise him for his decency—but when he walked amongst us, we responded with no decency of our own….We must act on the altogether proper assumption that Martin Luther King asked for nothing but that which was his due... He asked only for equality, and it is that which we denied him.”

— Rod Serling, newspapers.com

“Me: "Do you mind if I say a word?" Widow: "Please do." Me: clears throat "Plethora." Widow: "Thank you. That means a lot.”

— SnuggleMeister, reddit.com

“I, whose youth was passed in the august, unchallenged and tranquil glories of the Victorian era, may well feel a thrill in invoking once more the prayer and the anthem, "God save the Queen!"”

— Winston Churchill, eulogyspeech.net

“Now I must leave the treasures of the past and turn to the future. Famous have been the reigns of our queens. Some of the greatest periods in our history have unfolded under their sceptre.”

— Winston Churchill, eulogyspeech.net

“Our eulogies are always about the other stuff: what we gave, how we connected, how much we meant to our family and friends, small kindnesses, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh. So why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things our eulogy will…”

— Arianna Huffington, amazon.com