The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t one event, but a series of events followed by years of research adjudicated by panels of experts and committees of… — Eda J. Vor Copy Share Image
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which… — David Lack Copy Share Image
Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that.… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered why we bury and cremate our dead? Nothing to do with hygiene, it’s just so we don’t have… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
“The Kikuyu, when left to themselves, do not bury their dead, but leave them above ground for the hyenas and vultures to… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“=The Burial of Love= His eyes in eclipse, Pale cold his lips, The light of his hopes unfed, Mute his tongue, His… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of… — William Petty Copy Share Image
Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“The burial crew found him at Sara’s grave one day that summer. Without bothering to ask permission from the town council, they… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them… — John Graunt Copy Share Image
The death, and the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus happened over three days. Friday was the day of suffering and pain… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs… — Anthony Thwaite Copy Share Image
I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad,… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
“Burial Cathy Linh Che There is the rain, the odor of fresh earth, and you, grandmother, in a box. I bury the… — Cathy Linh Che Copy Share Image
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.” — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“The face of the dead man was concealed, of course, our customs not being those of the south, where corpses are carried… — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
“At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone,… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
