Quotes About Buried

In Treasure Island , Savannah is the place where Captain John Flint, the murderous pirate with the blue face, has died of rum before the story begins. It is on his death bed in Savannah that Flint bellows his last command - Fetch aft the rum, Darby! - and hands Billy Bones a map of Treasure Island. He gave it me at Savnnah, says Bones, when he lay a-dying. The book has a drawing of Flint's map in it with an X marking the location of the buried treasure.

Do you know how wizards like to be buried?""Yes!""Well, how?"Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs."Reluctantly.

I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt.

I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.

The other rooms were thick with the corpses of suffocated words.

being famous is a thing that depends greatly on position and opportunity. It is not enough to possess gifts and powers: there must also be the means of exhibiting them. For want of opportunity some of the greatest men perhaps are buried in obscurity.

suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.

This has been a story of the buried life after all: Emily and Austin and Vinnie firing up at the spark Mabel touched off when she flirted with Austin's buried passions and intruded on the Homestead and coveted the shadow-world of Sue and Emily. But to touch off that spark was Austin's doing as well as Mabel's. The feud was not wholly something that was done to the Dickinsons but was in some sense a sequel to what they were.

Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away.

There was Lorenzo slain and buried in, There in that forest did his great love cease; Ah! when a soul doth thus its freedom win, It aches in loneliness — is ill at peace 220

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

Esme straightens up, weighing the pebble in her palm. 'No,' she says. 'Were they burnt or strangled? Witches were strangled to death in parts of Scotland, weren't they? Or buried alive.

Myself my sepulcher, a moving grave, Buried, yet not exempt By privilege of death and burial From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs, But made hereby obnoxious To all the miseries of life.

pleasant-enough place, as cemeteries went, and if somebody had told him that he'd be buried there, after a life of, say, a hundred forty years and much more sex and barbecue, he would have been content with the prospect.

We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

What was archaeology to him? It was the opposite of killing things. It was trying to will life back into stuff that had been forgotten and buried for thousands or millions of years. It was not about shards and pieces of bone or treasure; it was about kneeling down in the elements, paying very close attention, and trying to locate a spark of the human life that had once touched that spot there.

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

hydrofracking" (often just "fracking")." In a nutshell, hydrofracking (or "induced hydraulic fracturing") is the process of injecting highly pressurized, chemical-laced fluid into a rock layer far below the surface of the earth in order to make cracks in it, and then to use the cracks to get to fossil fuels that you couldn't get to before because they were so deeply buried.

What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.