Cemeteries Quote by Vernor Vinge

“A walk through an old graveyard shows our ancestors often had more dead children than we have live ones.”

— P.J. O'Rourke

“Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living. Graveyards sprang up in…

— Arundhati Roy

“One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great…

— Hudson Stuck

“I don’t even like cemeteries. Morgues, either, nor anatomy museums, undertakers’ parlors, funeral chapels, or any of those places where the world of the…

— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis

“..:The greatest treasures, are burried in the cemeteries. Untold stories. Undeveloped programs, quotes, notes, books, inventions, antidotes that could of saved so many lives…

— Rafael Garcia

“The cemetery is the “richest or wealthiest prison of undiscovered, untapped, undeveloped and unfulfilled dreams of presidents that never presided, great orators that never…

— Ikechukwu Joseph

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The territory through which we passed had been overbuilt in the days over the Secular Ancients, but only a few traces of that exuberant…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race, by…

— thaddeus stevens

“I've just been around too much death today not to wonder why we find it appropriate to organize our festivities in and around the…

— Linda Fairstein

“My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history.”

— Christopher S. Wren

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch