Their Dead Quotes
33 quotes by 31 authors
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Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and…
— John F. Kerry
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Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
— Mark Twain
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If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are…
— Tertullian
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
— Barbara Tuchman
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I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer…
— Confucius
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have…
— John Berger
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If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.
— David Adams Richards
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We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like…
— Layne Staley
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The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon their…
— T.L. Osborn
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For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of…
— Robert Hooke
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd…
— Alexander Pope
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I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.
— Joan Didion
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Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief,…
— Anthony Kennedy
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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
— Zane Grey
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Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and…
— Stanislav Grof
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It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and…
— Diane Kruger
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God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing…
— Aldous Huxley
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And also...well...i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms." What'd they say?" Over their…
— Carolyn Mackler
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Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby.…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable…
— Hermann Hesse
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