Tomb Quotes
200 Tomb quotes by 151 unique authors
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The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the…
— Charles Reznikoff
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(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.
— Charles Lamb
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Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same…
— Bertrand Russell
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It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could…
— Isaac Marion
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I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a…
— Howard Carter
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For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like…
— Gustave Flaubert
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With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which has…
— William Tecumseh Vernon
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I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably 'Tomb Raider.' Whether or not you thought it was a…
— David S. Goyer
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Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from…
— Hesketh Pearson
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It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly…
— Elizabeth Kim
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Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.
— Horace
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
— Victor Hugo
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
— Timothy Keller
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Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last."…
— Billy Graham
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Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
— Lewis Mumford
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Marriage is the tomb of love.
— Giacomo Casanova
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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards…
— Umberto Eco
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The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.
— David Jeremiah
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Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
— Anthony Sampson
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Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
— Robert Emmet
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Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.
— Josh McDowell
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The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre…
— Gus Van Sant
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Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
— Margaret Cavendish
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It…
— Zahi Hawass
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I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a…
— Daniel Silva
Who Wrote These Tomb Quotes
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