Black boy Quote by Harper Lee

Let the dead bury the dead.

— Harper Lee

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

— Andre Gide

“The past was finished; let the dead bury their dead.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.”

— Robert Bloch

“Let the dead bury the dead, Sassenach,” he said softly. “The past is gone—the future is not come. And we are here together, you…

— Diana Gabaldon

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

— Bob Dylan

“Mr. Finch, if you was a nigger like me, you'd be scared, too.”

— Harper Lee

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

— George Burns

“I may not be much, Mr. Finch, but I'm still sheriff of Maycomb County, and Bob Ewell fell on his knife.”

— Sheriff Heck Tate To Kill a Mockingbird 1962

“He was shadows. Cool, calm, dead. Like Conash. The boy who had been Conash, but was no longer. Dead boy. Dead Son. Born dead…

— T.C. Southwell

If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough…

— Ronald Reagan

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

— Arundhati Roy