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Quotes About Burial

At a place known only to them they buried Crazy Horse somewhere near Chankpe Opi Wakpala, the creek called Wounded Knee.
~ Dee Brown
Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious rituals, and then showing them a hypocritical example in leadership!
~ Louis Farrakhan
If you're going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I? A: Memories — A FOLK RIDDLE
~ Jennifer McMahon
I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.
~ Jennifer McMahon
GerçeÄŸi gömmeniz boÅŸuna, topra??n alt?nda yol al?yor; bir gün, her yandan f??k?racak, öç bitkileri olarak aç?lacakt?r.
~ Émile Zola
ocúpate de que me entierren allí en secreto. Y si no lo haces así, ya te demostraré de un modo palpable que los muertos no se disuelven del todo.
~ Emily Bronte
Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.
~ Emily Carr
In the old days, coffins were equipped with a warning system—a chain attached to a bell on the grave in case of a premature burial. They say at night, when the mist rolls in, you can hear those bells." He glanced over the railing. "The dead down there don't want to be forgotten…ever again.
~ Amanda Stevens
The ghosts of those who take their own lives are considered notorious wanderers. That probably explains the high walls that surround the cemetery. In the old days, they would have buried the bodies facedown to disorient them." "The
~ Amanda Stevens
I'm told they buried they body with the garter belt still on.
~ Amber Tamblyn
Despite Paul's insistence that Jesus "was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures" (1 Cor. 15:4), no Jewish source, outside those associated with the followers of Jesus, shows any expectation that the messiah would be killed and after three days rise. The
~ Amy-Jill Levine
A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.
~ Ayman Odeh
Once again, airborne forces appeared to be coins burning a hole in the pockets of Allied commanders, coins that simply had to be spent. Soldiers soon mocked the operation as VARSITY BLUNDER, and burial squads with pruning saws and ladders took two days to cut down all the dead.
~ Rick Atkinson
A priest anointed the body with oil. Slovik would be buried outside a World War I cemetery at Oise-Aisne, near Soissons, in row three of Plot E—a hidden, unsanctified tract reserved for the dishonorable dead. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.
~ Rick Atkinson
They were all buried quickly, quietly, without the attention, the traditions, they deserved, the way people always are in a time of plague
~ Rick Bragg
At first the selection of Cody's burial site was under consideration both by members of his immediate family and by the city of Denver, but the family finally chose to leave the decision entirely up to the city.
~ Robert A. Carter
All at once she could hear the sullen patter of the rain and sense the sigh of the wind behind it. She remembered the sound, because it had rained like that the day Mom was buried, the day they lowered her into that little rectangle of darkness.
~ Robert Bloch
On November 13, the badly decomposed remains of Mary Meehan and her unborn baby were found buried beneath an empty lot, south of Sea-Tac. Meehan was the only victim to be fully buried by the killer.
~ Robert Keller
He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she wouldn't bury him. I'd a-done it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
On the evening after Mrs. Myra Murray of the over-harbour section had been buried Miss Cornelia and Mary Vance came up to Ingleside. There were several things concerning which Miss Cornelia wished to unburden her soul.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I guess we could pile some rocks on her, Call said. I hate just to leave a body laying out. Woodrow, she's mostly et anyway, Gus said. Why spoil the buzzards' picnic?
~ Larry McMurtry
I said we oughta get married," Louisa said loudly. "What I like about you is you're quiet. Jim talked every second that he didn't have a whiskey bottle in his mouth. I got tired of listening. Also, you're skinny. If you don't last, you'll be easy to bury. I've buried enough husbands to take such things into account. What do you say?
~ Larry McMurtry
I've seen your father bury many a man, but I never saw him take this kind of pains." Newt
~ Larry McMurtry