A Quote by Anne Tyler

Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
American - Novelist
Born: October 25, 1941

Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.

Edith Schaeffer

A president can't go to every memorial service.

Nancy Gibbs

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

Robert Byrne

A president cant go to every memorial service.

Nancy Gibbs

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

Joseph Story

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

John Berryman

I had a relationship with John Wooden. I spoke at his memorial service.

Ben Howland

Memorial Day is all about celebrating the lives of the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. The United States is made great because of their heroism. Their lives are remembered, honored, and celebrated by all of us, including the friends, family, and fellow service members who knew them best.

Jan Schakowsky

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

Courteney Cox

I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.

Charles Saatchi

Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more than just the story of one soldier's service and sacrifice. Their service ripples across their families, friends and their communities. Memorial Day reminds us it is the noble sacrifice of many that makes us who we are.

James Carafano

The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.

P. J. O'Rourke

On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.

Bill Flores

I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

Lynn Flewelling

We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

John Conyers

To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant dedication and diligence, as well as removing yourself at least occasionally from your own comfort zone and circumstances, and from people who looked like you.

Adam Mansbach

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