My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
Source: On President Theodore Roosevelt; in Celebrity Register, by Cleveland Amory and Earl Blackwell, 1963.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, (Feb 12 1884-1980), US author, socialite, celebrity relative; She was known as Washington's Other Monument and noted for her caustic remarks; daughter of Theodore Roosevelt.