Quotes About Grave

Honor is a thin cloak against the chill of a grave.

In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

I'd been everything but ordinary and I wanted to know what that felt like before they dump me into the grave.

Only in promotional brochures was Los Angeles the City of Angels. To those who knew it, really knew it, it was not a city, but a vast, open grave swallowing up young lives.

Fick snorted. "And you know as well as I do – allegations count a lot more than denials. Somebody says Charlie fucked a goat, even if the goat denies it, guy still goes to his grave Charlie the Goat Fucker.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

I shall be as secret as the grave.

All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.

This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.

Pretty much if your last name is Frankenstein, your'''e going to get into reanimating things, which of course accounts for the reason that we're number one in grave robbing. And I might add that we get along okay with vampires. That's important if you hang out in the paranormal community. You don't have to go around wearing steel neck-ties.

The time when Christ was 33, so I could see if he really got up from the grave. Or maybe I'd go back to the time of Cleopatra, before Marc Antony got tight with her. I'd try to hit on her first.

I leave you going blue and thinking I'm going to have to dig a grave, and return to find you -- well exercised.

Like every educated Englishman, Benjamin Franklin was obsessed with idleness. In his Poor Richard's Almanack of 1741, he offered familiar advice that echoed the talk of Hakluyt, Winthrop, and Byrd: "Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough." There was utterly nothing new in his pitch for hard work as the way to wealth.1

If not immanence, the soul's bright anchor--blood passed from one to the other--what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache? One man always low, in a grave or on the ground, the other up high, closer to heaven; one man always diseased, the other a body in service, plundered.

It was a dance. Or would be, if the composer and the musicians were all mad, and the ballroom was a sodden grave.

A stranger always hashis homeland in his armslike an orphanfor which he may be seekingnothing but a grave.

I was born to sail away, into a land of forever, not to be tied to an old stone grave, in your land of never.

Grave problems never frighten the fool. Those men who are disquieted, for example, by the qualitative deterioration of a society, make him laugh.

What is history if not a mass grave filled with the bodies of followers of Special Men? Maybe averageness and blandness is what we need right now.

He'll be back soon," she said, her face grave. It suddenly occurred to me that what people call "honesty" might well refer to just such an expression. I wondered if what the word originally meant was not something lovable like that expression, rather than the stern virtue smelling of textbooks of morality.

Daß du mein Grab besuchst, ist nicht wichtig. Ich weiß, daß du an mich denkst – das ist wichtiger.

It did not induce brain fever, or harm her so, belles lectrices. If we went down under every stroke in that way as novelists assume, we should all be loved of Heaven if that love be shown by early graves, as the old Greeks say.

He hoped no one would wake him because burying people took time and was a lot of effort.

If you don't believe in ghosts, then I dare you to run around the old man's grave. Three times. Counterclockwise." John thought about it. "If I run round it counterclockwise, that'll bring bad luck," he said. "I believe in bad luck." " Bones