Tombs Quotes · Page 2

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.

— John Keats

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

— Madame de Stael

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

— Mark Twain

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

— Max Lucado

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.

— David Jeremiah

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

— Lewis Mumford

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

— Beth Moore

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

— Walter Savage Landor

Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.

— Max Lucado

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the…

— Victor Hugo

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb…

— Sara Zarr

For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest…

— Mike Yaconelli

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are…

— Socrates

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages,…

— Austin O'Malley

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at…

— Hosea Ballou

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile…

— Zahi Hawass

When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider…

— Joseph Addison

One of the most important finds within the land of Egypt occurred when the Egyptologist and archaeologist Professor Walter B. Emery (1903-1971)…

— Michael Tsarion

A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters…

— Tom Brown, Jr

Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another,…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

I look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girl Turnin' this woman's womb into a tomb But…

— Common

The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His…

— Edward Thomson

You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible.…

— Sarah Parcak

René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her…

— Horace Walpole

“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you…

— George Eliot

Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only…

— Cecil O. Samuelson

His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed…

— Diophantus

There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.

— Ryan Lindley

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

— Plato

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

— Alexander the Great

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

— George Crabbe

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

— Clarence Darrow

The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

— David Hilbert

“Say NO to nuclear bombs otherwise it may take us all to our tombs.”

— Vinita Kinra