“Legalising the Basque flag over my dead body.”

“My mother (from Iparralde) understood perfectly that she had to teach French, not Basque, which is a dead language.”

“She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.”

“Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.”

“It’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot, I will not do that. I won’t do it, and they better not touch my kids either.”

“To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.”

“Tackle football is a body-mind sport; flag football is a mind-body sport.”

“That flag represents something very powerful to the men and women who serve our country. So out of respect for them and those who fight to protect that flag and what that flag represents, I stand up and I put my hand over my heart.”

“I think the case is so strong that I can tell you the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.”

“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”