Best Cemetery Quotations
148 Cemetery quotes by 134 unique authors
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.
— Hugh Hefner
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If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
— Bill Hicks
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to…
— Steve Jobs
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Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
— Klaus Kinski
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
— Malcolm X
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Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old…
— Viggo Mortensen
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I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
— Walter Dean Myers
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
— Pope John Paul II
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Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of…
— Rick Perry
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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
— Babe Ruth
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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
— Colonel Sanders
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Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored,…
— Allen West
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in…
— E. O. Wilson
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
— Harold Wilson
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In…
— Margaret Atwood
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
— Emile Zola
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Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot…
— N.D. Wilson
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The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art…
— Margaret Atwood
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I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.
— Gena Showalter
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