Graves Quotes · Page 23

You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

— Anonymous

There's many a white hand holds an urn With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.

— George Darley

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.

— Laura Huxley

Kate realized she had a grave problem. She was infatuated. Or mildly insane. Possibly both.

— Tessa Dare

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

— W. H. Auden

Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.

— Terry Pratchett

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

— Arsene Houssaye

My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.

— Richard Bowes

There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

— Jeb Bush

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom…

— Earl Warren

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence…

— George Catlin

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants…

— Carter G. Woodson

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I…

— Douglas William Jerrold

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and…

— John Jewel

The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and…

— Anne Lamott

Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly…

— William C. Bryant

When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty…

— Rachel Held Evans

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow…

— Francoise Sagan

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon…

— Barbara Kingsolver

She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt…

— Holly Black

In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world,…

— Edward Thomson

“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.”

— Victor Hugo

He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

— William Blake

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]

— Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

— Michael Shurtleff

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

— Tom Stoppard

“We stumble into our graves knowing so well how to have done better.”

— Dalton Trumbo

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

— John Donne

I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he’s doddering off to the…

— Cassandra Clare

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

— Edward Young

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

— James Fallows

I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.

— Lee Radziwill

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

— Alexander Smith

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

— Matthew Simpson

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

— David McCullough

“You’re great at fixing things. If anyone could do it, you could. But you can’t do this one. You can’t fix me.…

— Lili St. Crow

Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.

— Ala Bashir