Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Thurber

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Lisa Presley

I was very much a daddy's girl, and was pretty tyrannical when he was sleeping. If I could get into trouble, I would. I didn't have a lot of respect for those people because I saw a lot of debauchery and decadence going on. People trying to hid it from me, but I was onto them.

J. G. Ballard

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

Terence McKenna

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

Nancy Gordon

She was a good mother to her kids. Right now, we're trying to figure out how to pay for her burial because she did not have any kind of insurance.

Seneca

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial

Mike Dooley

The president is a draw because there are people who spend years visiting every presidential burial site,

Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Mike Dooley

The president (Harrison) is a draw because there are people who spend years visiting every presidential burial site,

Joshua Slocum

Green burial isn't about doing extra things. It's about what not to do.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

David Passey

The state will select an appropriate burial site for the people who are not immediately identified. Our primary concern is for the dignity of the deceased.

Melina Smith

Right now we just want to give her a proper burial and put her to rest.

Li Rongmei

We have to go through all the Customs procedures and paperwork so it is not easy to import one.

Agnes Repplier

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Robert Pastor

There is no question that over the last 10 years there has been enormous progress and transparency as it relates to customs in Mexico. Whether there is total transparency, I don't know.

David Liss

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

Chelsea Levine

I have always wanted to experience living in another country. I want to learn their customs and the way they do things.

Philip Greenfield

We work with all kinds of logistics providers: freight forwarders, customs brokers, export and import specialists, warehouses, and carriers.

Leila Janah

We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.

Barton Gellman

Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.

Lynn Flewelling

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.