Coffin Quotations

If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul

Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

She's going to be vital to us. She kept us in games last year, and she should have had more wins. But we just couldn't give it to her. Our problem was that we couldn't put the nail in the coffin because we couldn't score enough runs.

People were just starting to build up confidence again, and to have this happen was devastating for the locals. But I think it's the nail in the coffin for people coming to this place.

I think these numbers pretty much put a nail in the coffin of the notion that a 75 basis-point (three-quarters of a percentage point) cut will occur. I think (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan will get his wish for a move at the regular meeting, but they will do a 50 basis-point (half-point) cut.

Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is like another nail.

It is emotionally comforting for those elders who are left alone to know what they are going to wear, what kind of coffin they will lay in and where they will be buried.

That was huge. That put the nail in the coffin right there.

We were missing that last nail in the coffin last year and now we got it. Hopefully he can keep doing it and build some confidence and the offense can build some confidence.

We were sitting there watching the coffin being nailed shut, and what was inside was imagination and vision. With Carl Sagan, we determined to change that.

Walking through the streets of New Haven (Conn.) with William Sloane Coffin Jr. is like being in a movie about a small-town folk hero. People come up to shake his hand, students run after him with urgent questions, old folks stop their cars to call out, 'Good luck Bill!' and 'Howdy, Reverend.

We let one slip away from us, ... We played really well offensively. But we do have to put the final nail in the coffin when you've got them down.

We called for the intentional foul but they couldn't hear us. Thirty seconds go by and we pretty much put the last nail in the coffin ourselves.

We planned on going inside no matter who was in the game, but once Coffin picked up her fourth foul, we took advantage.

We're not able to put the nail in the coffin so to speak, just adding on. All crucial runs, all stuff that comes back to bite you later. We must be gluttons for punishment I guess.

This really was the nail in the coffin for the Aug. 24 meeting. I think it implies interest rates will go up faster in the future.

This really was the nail in the coffin for the Aug. 24 meeting, ... I think it implies interest rates will go up faster in the future.

This Veterans Day, my mind returns again and again to a flight I took home from Baghdad in August -- and an unforgettable reminder of the obligation we have to all who serve the country we love. As we boarded the C-130, I looked into the cargo hold and saw a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier home to his family and final resting place.

We just told each other we can't lose. This is the way (interim head coach Andy Kennedy) put it - someone was going to be a nail and a hammer. Someone was going to have their coffin shut tonight. We couldn't let it be us.

An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.

ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.

The thing that has to be done ? the final nail of the coffin ? is to ban the trade of American pit bull terriers, ... In other words you can't buy one because it is illegal.

Put your child in my child's coffin and tell me if two years sounds like enough.

Prior to 1850, caskets were like Dracula's; they were widest at the shoulder and narrowed down. When they dug a grave, they dug down to a point and then they dug the hole to match the shape of the coffin. This produced a shoulder of undisturbed soil, the coffin ledge, that the archeologist was probing. I tried it, and it takes quite some skill.

Somebody was going to get their coffin shut tonight, and it wasn't going to be us.

This is probably more than just the nail in the coffin I would suspect this has buried the coffin,

This is the nail in the coffin for the recession camp.

About 40 of us came over the fence in an effort to take a coffin to Rumsfeld.

It seems like every single analyst on the Street is on the 'old economy' bandwagon and determined to drive the last nail in the coffin of highflying techs and arrogant investors.

It's a start. We need to go on a roll of four or five wins to get back in it. We've had enough nails driven in our coffin lately. Now they're trying to drive in spikes.

It was big. We let them hang around a little bit after being up by a few goals and we gave them a little bit of life. We got a little sloppy but we were able to drive the final nail in the coffin and that was a big turning point for us.

It's the jewel in the crown really for rural areas at the moment the health service, and I think if that disappears it is another nail in the coffin for rural communities.

It's important for the public to understand that Coffin Rock was gone before Weyerhaeuser bought it.

It's convenient in a way, because you don't have to answer many questions: People say, 'Man, how are you feeling?' And I say, 'How do I look?' And they go, 'Oh, okay.' I've got the coffin maker calling every now and then about measurements, wanting to give me a proper fit.

It was a mistake, and this study really confirms that it was the wrong direction to go for nutritional advice. It did do harm. It was a lost opportunity. People were given the idea that it was only fat calories that counted. This should be the nail in the coffin for low-fat diets.

I've got a crew that has been with me for quite a while, ... They know how to break down the disappearing coffin trick. They know how to break down the guillotine.

I want this spot; there's no doubt. I'm trying to stick the nail in the coffin right now.

There was a period of time after the Salt Lake Olympics when I told him there had to be a new coach and new location. Words were exchanged. Deep conversation was exchanged. I told him we were in a coffin and about to be buried into the ground. I should say a happy ending would be the world title. On his good day he's a world champion, no problem. Who knows if we'll get to that day? He has to want it. It can't be me wanting it more than him. I don't know if we'll get to that day.

I want to send my handkerchiefs down to George Steinbrenner. I want to put the cover on the coffin of the curse.

I don't think Jeremy was sharp. Velocity-wise he was fine, but location he was not. He didn't have it. We got pounded. Honestly, it could have been worse. We scored in three innings and all three times we gave up runs. It's another nail in the coffin for a team that is already kind of fragile. It was not pretty.

If I ever solve this problem, I'd like to emblazon my coffin with this number,

Colt Coffin ran well. We need to get some of those other runners up a lot further.

He brought in a hammer and a nail. And he told us, 'Somebody's going to get that coffin shut tonight.' We didn't want it to be us.

This is more of a final nail in the coffin of the company's past accounting practices. Investors are looking at the company going forward rather than past. They have been doing a lot of things right lately.

I am told he makes a very handsome corpse, and becomes his coffin prodigiously.