Graves Quotes · Page 21

There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. I never even saw it coming.

— Kami Garcia

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

— Heinrich Heine

We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.

— Benjamin Carson

We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I loved the [English] countryside. I went to John Bonham's grave.

— Bill Burr

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

— Edward Coke

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to…

— Anthony Horowitz

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead…

— Herbert Hoover

It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as…

— Leigh Hunt

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the…

— Charles Henry Fowler

Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start. Dru Anderson: I don’t want to deal with it today. Graves: Okay. I…

— Lilith Saintcrow

What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means…

— George Eliot

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and…

— William C. Bryant

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us…

— Samuel Rutherford

The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events…

— Carl Sagan

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of…

— William Shakespeare

Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

She made a snorting noise, astonishingly human for a ghost. " I'ardly like to tell you this, Nephilim, but if you want…

— Cassandra Clare

When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers…

— John Dryden

... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about…

— Garth Stein

I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet.…

— Emily Dickinson

A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.

— Marcus Aurelius

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

— Vaclav Havel

You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.

— Edgar Cayce

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

— James Montgomery

Jesus rose from the grave and you, you can't even get out of bed.

— Keith Green

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

— Mary Elizabeth Frye

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

— James Thurber

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

— Francis Quarles

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

— Pablo Escobar

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave…

— T. S. Eliot

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

— Joe Orton

Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens.

— The Notorious B.I.G

From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently,

— Facundo Cabral

... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ...

— George Eliot

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

— Pat Robertson