Buried Quotes

718 Buried quotes by 574 unique authors

The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some… — Edwin Land
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies. — Elia Kazan
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled… — David Mamet
We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must… — Thurgood Marshall
The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!! — Hiroko Sakai
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the… — Marcus Aurelius
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of… — Marcus Aurelius
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. . — Bill Vaughan
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats… — Ben Jonson
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. — Benjamin Franklin
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. — Henry Louis Gates
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. — Henry Louis Gates
I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried. — Robin Gibb
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. — Daniel Goleman
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with… — Lady Gregory
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over… — Charles Caleb Colton
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. — E E Cummings
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. — Phyllis Diller
The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of… — Roger Ebert
I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol. — Jerry Falwell
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. — Jean de La Fontaine
The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there. — Hugh Hefner
I want to be buried with a mobile phone, just in case I'm not dead. — Amanda Holden

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