Graves Quotes · Page 19

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave,…

— Anonymous

Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.

— Tammy Faye Bakker

Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.

— William Shakespeare

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

— Russell Kirk

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

— Ralph Kiner

“There are many graves to stumble over in the mind. Just be careful where you dig or live with the monsters you…

— Zachary Koukol

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

— Thomas Southerne

This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his…

— John Keats

They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put…

— Czeslaw Milosz

My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for…

— Petrarch

Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.

— George McGovern

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a…

— John Steinbeck

Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without The…

— Arthur Cleveland Coxe

The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is…

— Andrea Dworkin

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level…

— Julian Barnes

Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character…

— Anonymous

France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows…

— Alexander Smith

In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker…

— Kylie Tennant

Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye…

— George R. R. Martin

I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest.…

— Wilson Rawls

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

— Josephine Lawrence

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

— Sam Cooke

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

— Jodi Picoult

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

— Ambrose Bierce

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

— Henry Van Dyke

The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore.

— Abraham Coles

But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a…

— W. S. Gilbert

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

— Henry David Thoreau

The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.

— Cleveland Amory

Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

— Lord Byron

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

— Robert Browning

The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

— Charles Spurgeon

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..

— Ben Bradlee

That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

— Neal Shusterman

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

— Frida Kahlo