Valerie Harper Quotes

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

If any of you cry at my funeral, I'll never speak to you again!

I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

I have not had the opportunity to deliver a funeral oration, but I hope to speak very eloquently in one word, in fact, in one syllable when I say “Aye” for the resolution.

A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.

Everyone has to go to a funeral at some time and you need to be dark and sombre, and in a black tie.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

We don't do funerals in my family.

I done been to so many funerals.

When my dad passed away, I was under a lot of stress with planning a funeral, trying to pick out just the right flowers and pictures, and simply trying to find the right way to say goodbye.

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. I'm not impressed by the past very much. The past bores me, to tell you the truth; it really bores me. I don't remember many movies and certainly not my own.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.