David Burtka Quotes

I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

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

There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens.

How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

My dad died of a stroke.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.

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

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

I done been to so many funerals.

After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer.

My best girl is dead.

Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

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

Nice day for a funeral.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?” “Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. “Yeah? Cool! Whose?” “Hers.” Shane said.