My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral it's a good pick.

As a pastor you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit you get invited into the center of the event whether or not you know the people.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994 and how kind she was during that difficult time.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

When a nation's young men are conservative its funeral bell is already rung.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Rome - the city of visible history where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself just the fact that I was breathing.

I've been to many funerals of funny people and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have because the emotions run high.

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke and then see who shows up for the funeral.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings Bar Mitzvahs funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

I was fantasising about my own death I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played I was at that level of insanity.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Let no one weep for me or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

I didn't attend the funeral but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it instead of carrying it.