Graves famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Lying is before you and the grave is in front of you.
-- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia -
We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
-- Al McGuire -
When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
-- Alexander Pope -
I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave.
-- Allen Iverson -
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
-- Alyce Cornyn-Selby -
When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.
-- Anastas Mikoyan -
The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
-- Andrew Marvell -
He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.
-- Aron Ralston -
The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.
-- Arsene Houssaye -
The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.
-- August Tholuck -
Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.
-- Bell Hooks -
Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..
-- Ben Bradlee -
Dennis Wise, Vinnie Jones and John Fashanu must be turning in their graves
-- Carlton Palmer -
Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.
-- Caroline Norton -
Well, there aren’t any graves in mundane wedding ceremonies,†said Tessa. “Though your ability to quote the Bible is impressive. Better than my aunt Harriet’s.†“Did you hear that, James? She just compared us to her aunt Harriet.
-- Cassandra Clare -
When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.
-- Christopher Eccleston -
The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
-- Cleveland Amory -
I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.
-- Compay Segundo -
If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.
-- D. J. MacHale -
A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.
-- Earl Nightingale -
Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
-- Emmanuelle Beart -
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
-- Fannie Flagg -
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.
-- Fran Lebowitz -
How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!
-- Francis Alexander Durivage -
Our lives are but our marches to the grave.
-- Francis Beaumont -
They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
-- Francis Marion Crawford -
If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.
-- Francis Quarles -
I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.
-- Frida Kahlo -
Never the grave gives back what it has won!
-- Friedrich Schiller -
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
-- Georg Buchner -
Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.
-- George McGovern -
He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
-- George R. R. Martin -
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.
-- George Washington -
[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
-- Georges Bernanos -
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
-- H. R. Haldeman -
And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.
-- Henry Kirke White -
Even cities have their graves!
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree -
The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.
-- Horace -
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
-- Horace -
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
-- Horace -
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
-- Izaak Walton -
I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
-- Jack Wild -
If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.
-- Jared Harris -
You can run from the grave, but you can't hide.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.
-- Johann Gottlieb Fichte -
The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.
-- John Keats -
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
-- John Ruskin -
Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
-- John Thorn -
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
-- Jonathan Swift -
I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.
-- KaDee Strickland -
We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.
-- Kami Garcia -
I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.
-- Katherine Heigl -
A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.
-- Lee Kuan Yew -
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
-- Livy -
Theres a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.
-- Liya Kebede -
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
-- Ludwig Quidde -
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.
-- Marianne de Pierres -
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
-- Mark Twain -
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
-- Mary Elizabeth Frye -
marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
-- Matthew Simpson -
I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
-- Michael R. Burch -
Without water the desert is nothing but a grave ...
-- Mildred Cable -
I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.
-- Miriam Margolyes -
Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.
-- Nathalia Crane -
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
-- Nathaniel Parker -
That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!
-- Neal Shusterman -
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux -
There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
-- Paul Erdos -
Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.
-- Percival Everett -
The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves
-- Randall Munroe -
It is amazing that we hesitate to talk about the wrath of God, for fear of making sinners feel fearful. The fear they feel this side of the grave will be nothing compared to the fear they feel when they stand before Almighty God.
-- Ray Comfort -
My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.
-- Richard Bowes -
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.
-- Rickie Lee Jones -
There is no safety this side of the grave
-- Robert A. Heinlein
