Piping At Funeral Quotes & Sayings

Pops gave him a cool stare that settled Tom down - a thing not always easy to do. "Son, do you know what history is?"
"Uh ... stuff that happened in the past?"
"Nope," he said, trying on his canvas change-belt. "History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever growing pile of crap. Right now, we're standin at the top of it, but pretty soon we'll be buried under the doodoo of generations yet to come. That's why your folks' clothes look so funny in old photographs, to name but a single example. And, as someone who's destined to buried beneath the shit of your children and grandchildren, I think you should be just a leetle more forgiving. — Stephen King

When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day. — Wes Anderson

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past. — Esther Meynell

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. — Helen Caldicott

Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding. — Shannon Hale

To Succeed You Must Read — A.J. Briscoe

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics. — Wendell Phillips

But I never wanted just your body, Lane. I always wanted your heart. I was just too afraid to ask for it. — Katie Ashley

Why should any of these things that happen externally, so much distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing, and cease roving and wandering to and fro. Thou must also take heed of another kind of wandering, for they are idle in their actions, who toil and labour in this life, and have no certain scope to which to direct all their motions, and desires. — Marcus Aurelius

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one. — Giulio Andreotti

Sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names
I dedicate every pore to what's here — Ikkyu

I think our last kiss was meant to be quick and chaste, but after the first touch of his lips fire leaped up and roared through my belly. My fingers yanked him close, digging into his back, and his arms crushed me to him as if wanting to meld us together. I knotted my fingers in his hair and bit down on his bottom lip, making him groan. His lips parted, and my tongue swept in to dance with his. There was nothing sweet or gentle in our last kiss; it was filled with sorrow and desperation, of the bitter knowledge that we could've had something perfect, but it just wasn't meant to be. — Julie Kagawa

He wanted to knock these humans' heads together and toss them out of the suite, preferably out the window. — Thea Harrison

I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches. — Annie French Hector