Graves Quotes · Page 39

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

— Horace

All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!

— Louis Simpson

I shall be as secret as the grave.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

— Jack Wild

“Build castles, don't dig graves.”

— David J. Schwartz

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training…

— Anonymous

A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was…

— Robert Graves

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire…

— Pope Benedict XVI

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which…

— Fanny Kemble

He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded…

— Frederick Buechner

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You will fail and I’ll dance on your grave. (Apollymi)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the…

— Thomas Morley

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

— Richard Bowes

I think we're being laughed at all over the world. I think that if you look at our military, we can't beat…

— Donald Trump

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

— H. R. Haldeman

No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in…

— Matthew Arnold

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more…

— Norm MacDonald

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

— William Shakespeare

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

— Alyce Cornyn-Selby

Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name.…

— Karen Russell

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather…

— Jimmy Cliff