Scalia remembered as dad, colleague, friend at memorial

Thomas paused to collect himself at one point in his speech when he quoted from the eulogy for an influential pastor killed by the Nazi regime: "With him, a piece of my own life is carried to the grave."

Ginsburg, Scalia's ideological opposite on the court, remembered Scalia giving her a draft of a dissent she called a "zinger" and how her "final draft was much improved thanks to Justice Scalia's searing criticism."

Ginsburg, who became friends with the conservative justice in the early 1980s when they served together as federal appeals court judges, said she will miss his "eminently quotable opinions" and acts of friendship, like bringing her roses on her birthday.

Larsen, who was one of the clerks who stood watch over Scalia's casket at the Supreme Court on the day before his funeral, said that clerks found that the most challenging thing to do while standing there and thinking about him was not to keep from crying but to keep from grinning.