Quotes About Tombs

And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in the tombs; from grave to grave flute trills, harp chords answer one another.

You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible. You're actually able to see settlements and tombs - and even things like buried pyramids - that you might not otherwise be able to see.

I know not why we should delay our tokens of respect to those who merit them, until the heart that our sympathy could have gladdened has ceased to beat. As men cannot read the epitaphs inscribed upon the marble that covers them, so the tombs that we erect to virtue often only prove our repentance that we neglected it when with us.

I have been Presumptuous against love, against the sky, Against all elements, against the tie Of mortals each to each, against the blooms Of flowers, rush of rivers, and the tombs Of heroes gone.

The availability of irrigation systems to water the land and produce grain and other food crops was the material foundation for these two great river-valley societies, Egypt and Iraq. They were hydraulic despotisms, in which a small ruling class, with the aid of soldiers and priests, commanded the material resources that gave sustenance to these civilizations and allowed them to build cities, palaces, and tombs.

And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.

And Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of Davidís descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.

When Jesus arrived on the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, He was met by two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.

The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

After Jesusí resurrection, when they had come out of the tombs, they entered the holy city and appeared to many people.

As soon as Jesus got out of the boat, He was met by a man with an unclean spirit, who was coming from the tombs.

This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains.

Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.

When Jesus stepped ashore, He was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothing or lived in a house, but he stayed in the tombs.

Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.

So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.