Burial Quotes

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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. — Seneca the Younger
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences,… — Roderick Murchison
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. — Seneca the Younger
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year… — Barack Obama
Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look… — John Graunt
... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in… — Albert Einstein
Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial. — William Shakespeare
As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important… — Ann Coulter
Everything ends this way in France â€” everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs â€” everything is a pretext for a good dinner. — Jean Anouilh
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging… — Edward Abbey
"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything?… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. — Alfred Hitchcock
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx.… — Zahi Hawass
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial.… — George Steiner
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends… — Harold Brodkey
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura — Seneca the Younger
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box. — Wil Shriner
HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the… — Ambrose Bierce

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