Cemetery Quote by James Cagney
“New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults.”
![“Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ee3/mark-twain-22_admiration_many-of-the-cemeteries-are-beautiful-and_496179.jpg)
![“As for "A Grave," it has a significance apart from the literal origin, which was a man who placed himself between my mother and me, and the surf we were watching from the middle ledge of rocks on Monhegan Island [in Maine] after the storm. ("Don't be annoyed," my mother said. "It is human nature…” quote by Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/820/marianne-moore-3315_human-nature_as-for-a-grave-it-has-a-significance-apa_3194459.jpg)
