Graves Quotes · Page 32

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real…

— Richard Gilman

There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a…

— Franz Kafka

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that…

— Khaled Hosseini

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

— Manfred von Richthofen

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His…

— Ted Dekker

States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of…

— George W. Bush

The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing…

— Preet Bharara

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and…

— Charlotte Bronte

Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy…

— Shaw Neilson

You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without…

— Lord Chesterfield

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where…

— Herbert Hoover

There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds…

— Ray Bradbury

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

— Thurgood Marshall

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

— Thomas Browne

The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for…

— Frederick Denison Maurice

The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery.…

— Myles Munroe

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

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

— Washington Irving

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

— John Lothrop Motley

The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

— Richard M. Nixon

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

— Charlotte Bronte

“Answer this question very carefully, kid. Are you a virgin?" The silence was so long I thought I was going to have…

— Lili St. Crow

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

— Rita Mae Brown