A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

“...our loves ones truly are ever-present. We may bury their bodies or scatter their ashes, but their spirits are boundless and do not accompany…

— April Slaughter

Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and…

— Catharine Arnold

Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

— Theodora

“Clemo, Nonini, Jua Cali wakianzisha Genge, ilishika but hawakuwa na clear plan. Now it's dead and burried with Mejja as the only survivor mwenye…

— DON SANTO

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

— Alfred Hitchcock

It's great that after 700 years William Wallace has finally had a proper burial. He did so much for the country. You should be…

— Mel Gibson

O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from…

— Herman Melville

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive…

— Roderick Murchison

“Perhaps more importantly, the ants used all the sugar lumps they could steal to build a small sugar pyramid in one of the hollow…

— Terry Pratchett

There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought…

— Isak Dinesen

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

— Francois Mauriac

“The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and…

— e. e. cummings

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial,…

— Harold MacMillan