Graveyard Quotes
126 quotes by 111 authors
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
— Samuel Beckett
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What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same…
— John Oliver Killens
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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
— Neil Kinnock
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They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this…
— David Berlinski
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I…
— Samuel Beckett
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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the…
— Charles Dickens
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The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not…
— Arthur Lynch
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Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.
— Christopher Rice
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I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell…
— Colin Quinn
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
— Gary Larson
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The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think…
— Sebastian Barry
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I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which…
— Charles Bukowski
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Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is…
— Whitey Herzog
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Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
— Maureen Dowd
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Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
— Calvin Coolidge
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There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is... Joe Torre…
— Michael Kay
Who Wrote These Graveyard Quotes
111 authors contributed a total of 126 Graveyard Quotes, led by these top contributors: