Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes… — James Chiles 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
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
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 death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“Not everyone who died had left a "memory" and not everyone who had left a memory had left a "blessed" one. Therefore,… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
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
“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
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
“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
“Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!” — Israelmore Ayivor 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
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
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
“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
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self. — Richard Leakey 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
“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
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
