Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen… — Allen West Copy Share Image
As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In a rush this weekday morning, I tap the horn as I speed past the cemetery where my parents are buried side… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'… countless books unwritten… countless songs unsung... I want… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. — Aristide Briand Copy Share Image
“My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history.” — Christopher S. Wren Copy Share Image
My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my… — Carol Plum-Ucci Copy Share Image
“My body weeps to live when you make me believe that someday I will be dead soul sleepless in graveyard's bed” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. — Colonel Sanders Copy Share Image
in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery. — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
“The earth has lots of love to give, if you just know where to dig. My advice is start in the cemetery.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. — Tim McCarver Copy Share Image
I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery. — Yehuda Amichai 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
“Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon.… — George Jones Copy Share Image
I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“THE SLEEK BLACK AUDI ROLLED to a stop in the parking lot overlooking the cemetery, but none of the three men inside… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish.… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin.… — David Eugene Edwards Copy Share Image
I'm going out with these old guys. One guy gave me a hickey and left his teeth in my neck. Another man,… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to… — thaddeus stevens Copy Share Image
There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in the government of the lash, if any one of you ever expects to whip your children again,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“The moon fled eastward like a frightened dove, while the stars changed their places in the heavens, like a disbanding army. 'Where… — Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Copy Share Image
“I shook with cold and fear, without being able to answer. After a lapse of some moments, I was again called. I… — Hain Friswell Copy Share Image
![“There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school…” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ecd/gene-wilder-3914_buried_there-wasn-t-a-funeral-per-se-i-buried-g_2762530.jpg)
