Barbara Bel Geddes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

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