Grave Quotes

1157 Grave quotes by 832 unique authors

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But… — Archilochus
None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already… — Archibald Alexander
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but… — John Pearson
May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave. — Frank Richard Stockton
Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the… — Satish Kumar
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there… — Henry Cabot Lodge
There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country. — James Forrestal
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of… — Roman Jakobson
I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible… — Edward Carpenter
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious… — Louis Finkelstein
So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was… — Steven Hatfill
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most… — Harri Holkeri
Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. — Lillian Gordy Carter
Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state… — Frank Murphy
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same. — Georg Buchner
You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to… — Gwen Moore
It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers. — Jose Maria Aznar
The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so… — John O. Brennan
No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and… — Darrell Hammond
In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the… — Mark Helprin
You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes the sapphire from a child's eyes. Dark time, who has… — Neil Gaiman
The earth shall inherit the meek and the mighty alike. All are equal before the grave. — Harriet McBryde Johnson
I've done a fair share of stupid things in my life, a couple of which should have put me in the grave. But here I… — Craig Wilson
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon

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