Commonwealth State Funeral

Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth, state and/or funeral:

    “The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
    —For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Up, black, striped and damasked like the chasuble
    At a funeral mass, the skunk’s tail
    Paraded the skunk.”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)