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Quotes About Burial

high heels are each big enough to bury an Egyptian in.
~ Katherine Dunn
I'll carry him. We can't leave drag marks or anything, and we'll need to bury him right away, so no dogs find him. Bury who? said a voice beside me. I jumped so high, my heart rammed into my throat. Chloe? Derek said again. It's L-Liam. His ghost. Liam stopped. Ghost? He looked at me, then at his body, on the ground. He swore.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Any church that operates in prayerless and powerless Christianity spend their days and years conducting dust to dust rites in the burial grounds.
~ Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
Booming and yet muffled, croaking, like an amplified premature burial, it called out "Merriiiiinnnnnn!" And then the massive and shiveringly hollow jolt of a single sledgehammer blow against the bedroom wall. "God
~ William Peter Blatty
and three suicides, though one minister had tried to protest that decision that they be buried in what was now consecrated ground. That protest was greeted with icy rejection from Charlie, who was now a former member of that congregation.
~ William R. Forstchen
We have done but greenly,In hugger-mugger to inter him.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too. Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern.
~ Wilson Rawls
It was as if the coffin was a toboggan. A coffin toboggan. A coffboggan.
~ David Walliams
The case has been put to rest now. John is buried, and whatever was left of my reputation has been salvaged," he said, his voice oddly soft. "Thank you for that. You fight harder for me than you would ever do for yourself. Why?
~ Deanna Raybourn
c'était pas un péché… si c'était pas un péché, je me pensais, de clôturer une chrétienne quasiment sous terre quand il faisait si beau dehors.
~ Jean Giono
The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were even known to bury other dead animals, including humans.
~ Jean M. Auel
Sometimes I think that you're too sweet to die, Sometimes I think that you're too sweet to die, And another time I think you ought to be buried alive.
~ Elijah Wald
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
If you chose to live in a home that is living on intersecting laylines, and you're living on an Indian burial ground and having paranormal experiences that are bothersome, you're not going to get rid of them. They've taken ownership of that home and that area.
~ Zak Bagans
Someone is digging your grave right now.
~ Richard Siken
So , I said, now that we have our dead, what are we going to do with them?
~ Richard Siken
As we mentioned earlier, knowledge of cannabis goes back to at least the New Stone Age, when our ancestors in the Near East buried their dead with specimens of marijuana – perhaps to keep them happy on the voyage to the "other side," or perhaps to bargain with the denizens upon their arrival. This shows the same religious awe for this plant that, according to U.S. government officials, was only invented in the 1960s as an excuse to smoke it.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Üzerinden çok uzun zaman geçti; ama geçmiÅŸ için söylenenler yanl??. Ben onun nas?l gömüleceÄŸini öÄŸrendim. Her ne kadar geçmiÅŸ pençeleriyle kendine bir ç?k?? yolu açmay? becerse de.
~ Khaled Hosseini
The messenger who came with the news, he said that when they brought the boys back to camp, Ahmad Shah Massoud personally oversaw the burial. He said a prayer for them at the gravesite. That's the kind of brave young men your brothers were, Laila, that Commander Massoud himself, the Lion of Panjshir, God bless him, would oversee their burial.
~ Khaled Hosseini
A lot of kids died. Dysentery, TB, hunger—you name it. Mostly, that damn dysentery. God, Laila. I saw so many kids buried. There's nothing worse a person can see.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Death had kissed her long and hard with its frozen lips, and her body was stiff. I held her in my arms, hoping the warmth of my body could bring her back to life. Ignoring my brother's presence, I wept uncontrollably. With Lulu in my arms, I walked toward the front lawn. I had chosen a burial site for Lulu - a strip of land under the cherry tree overlooking the street.
~ Kien Nguyen
Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
To defeat your adversary and bury him is one thing. To dress him in a jester's costume and have him perform for you is another, more crushing blow. He survives to give witness to his own powerlessness."16 This is what both Chaplin and Brooks did to Hitler.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt