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Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty. -- John Agar
We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto. -- Willie Stargell
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. -- Thomas Hobbes
My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me. -- Victoria Clark
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. -- Samuel Richardson
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. -- Hermann Broch
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
The spirit walks of every day deceased. -- Edward Young
If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased. -- Kanye West
Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed. -- Dan Fogelberg
The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts. -- Mal Peet
I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it. -- Robert Wagner
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. -- Joshua Sylvester
And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East." -- Rudyard Kipling
In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living. -- Tess Gerritsen
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.' -- Salman Rushdie
My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs. -- Ike Barinholtz
Kidney donors don't have to be close relatives of recipients, but they do need to have the right blood type. And kidneys from living donors tend to last many years longer than kidneys from deceased donors. -- Virginia Postrel
If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased . -- Guru Nanak
I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time. -- Bob Matsui
I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time. -- Bob Matsui
Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves. -- Matthew Henry
During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print. -- Tom Rachman
Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another. -- Anton Chekhov
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased. -- Anton Chekhov
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own. -- Anthony Kennedy
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. -- William Shakespeare
To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the temple for them. This will forge a continuous chain between us and our forefathers eventually all the way back to Father Adam and Mother Eve. -- James E. Faust
What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago. -- Gale Sayers
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter. -- David Novak
Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives? -- John D. MacDonald
My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.' -- Abraham Verghese
My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad. -- Mark Ronson
There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone. -- Jocelyn Murray
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
In my own life, I find myself doing some task - driving or playing golf - and having a conversation with my mother or father, who are both deceased. I don't know if that means I'm mentally ill, but I suspect lots of people do it. And when I hold that conversation, different images of my parents appear to me. -- James Remar
You don't want to be like the motion picture exec who had so many people at his funeral, but they were there just make sure he was dead. Or how about the guy who, at his funeral, the priest said, "Won't anyone stand up and say anything nice for the deceased?" and finally someone said, "Well, his brother was worse." -- Charlie Munger
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore. -- Larry Gates
I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased. -- Kenzaburo Oe
I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book. -- Garrison Keillor
I have no use for your body, for within its youth lies a rotten wench already deceased. -- Keisha Keenleyside
To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. -- John D. Voelker
And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'. -- Tupac Shakur
My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad. -- Woody Allen
Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before. -- Susan Hubbard
I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy) -- John F. Kennedy
True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane -- Nas
Peter Norman is a humanitarian, and I say "is" because in my life, Peter Norman is never deceased. He's always going to live with me. -- John Carlos
Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual. -- Beetlejuice
A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased. -- Ming-Dao Deng
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday. -- Albert Camus

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