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A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral.Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
One was Christina-Taylor Green, the girl killed in the shooting. That book contained a quote from the book's author that Obama incorporated into his speech: "I hope you jump in rain puddles." White House staffers exchanged email with religious advisors about biblical passages, settling on the Book of Job and Psalms 46. Obama decided to quote ...
The light has gone out of our lives is a speech that was delivered ex tempore by Jawaharlal Nehru, [1] the first Prime Minister of India, on January 30, 1948, following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi earlier that evening. It is often cited as one of the greatest speeches in history.
Here, watch Queen Elizabeth's tribute to Princess Diana after her death, broadcast from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on September 5, 1997: The full text of Queen Elizabeth's televised speech ...
'Regardless of what has happened to me,' she asserted, 'I show up, and I show out.'
George W. Bush delivers the eulogy at Ronald Reagan's state funeral, June 2004. A eulogy (from εὐλογία, eulogia, Classical Greek, eu for "well" or "true", logia for "words" or "text", together for "praise") is a speech or writing in praise of a person, especially one who recently died or retired, or as a term of endearment.
We can be reasonably sure that Pericles delivered a speech at the end of the first year of the war, but there is no consensus as to what degree Thucydides's record resembles Pericles's actual speech. [ b ] Another confusing factor is that Pericles is known to have delivered another funeral oration in BC 440 during the Samian War . [ 8 ]
For his first win, he offered: “Thank you very much. Thank you”, before following up his second victory with: “I feel like a mother of the wonderful twins.” Louie Psihoyos ( The Cove , 2009)