Funeral Quotes
For Mom or Dad

Sometimes, the wise and lyrical words of others who have been here before, can help you put your own thoughts and feelings into perspective.

Mom/
Dad

“The death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.”

– Brenda Ueland

“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.”

– Laura Ingalls Wilder

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

– Maya Angelou

“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Mom

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything”

– C.S Lewis

“She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings.”

– Ariana Dancu

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

– Abraham Lincoln

“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

– J.K. Rowling

“There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible—a wound that will never quite heal”

– Susan Wiggs

“A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.”

– Author Unknown

“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”

– Irish Proverb

Dad

“Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but live in thankfulness that he was”

– Hebrew proverb

“My Father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it”

– Clarence Budington Kelland

“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.”

– Henry Drummond

“When he shall die take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.”

– William Shakespeare

“To her, the name of father was another name for love.”

– Fanny Fern

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me”

– Jim Valvano

“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children”

– Émile Gaboriau

“This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments—and you get the tears at the end, too.”

– Harlan Coben

“Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.”

– Author Unknown

“There is no expiration date on the love between a father and his child.”

– Jennifer Williamson

“When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him lies on the paths of men.”

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.”

 – Author Unknown

“That man is a success—who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.”

– Author Unknown

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