Graves Quotes · Page 17

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

— James Cook

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last; Nurses to their graves are gone, And the prams go rolling…

— W. H. Auden

Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.

— Hilda Doolittle

Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea.

— Jethro Tull

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

— Diana Nyad

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

— Edward Bellamy

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

— Pope Francis

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion…

— Albert Einstein

I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be…

— Ann Radcliffe

I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like…

— Oliver Reed

Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling…

— Leigh Hunt

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a…

— Wim Wenders

I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide…

— Hari Kondabolu

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from…

— Franz Kafka

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret…

— Ronald Ross

It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own…

— Marcel Proust

I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where…

— William Blake

The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of…

— Pope Pius XII

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to…

— Robert De Niro

That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even…

— Peter Drucker

I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that…

— Frederick Exley

In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.

— Gichin Funakoshi

Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave.

— Wilfrid Hyde-White

Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

— Erich Maria Remarque

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

— Chinua Achebe

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

— Horace

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

— William Watson

In our natural Adamic state, we are not on our sick beds. We are in the grave.

— Keith Mathison

I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.

— Lee Kuan Yew

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, /…

— Sappho

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

— W. H. Auden

No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen.

— Karen Marie Moning

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

— Nelson Mandela

If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so…

— Thomas Nagel

I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

— Shahid Afridi