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Quotes About Cemetery

Stupid bitch,' Tori muttered. 'oh let's take the necromancer with the superpowers to the cemetery. Of course you aren't going to raise the dead, you silly girl.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Lincoln's address at Gettysburg - 272 words dedicating a cemetery at the site of one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles - has been called by scholars the source of all modern political prose.
~ Mike Quigley
where oh where, in what cemetery of the heavens do the tender words of lovers rest when they love no more? (Searching for author)
~ Unknown Author Searching
The entire notion of biography is grounded in the arbitrary ascription of a causal relation between specified traits and subsequent events. Now consider the cemetery. The graveyard of failed persons will be full of people who shared the following traits: courage, risk taking, optimism, et cetera. Just like the population of millionaires. There may be some differences in skills, but what truly separates the two is for the most part a single factor: luck. Plain luck.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
She did know that once tattooed one could no longer expect to lie for all eternity in an orthodox Jewish cemetery. They wouldn't even bury women with pierced ears. A strange theory of mutilation from the people who invented cutting the skin off the pee-pee.
~ Tom Robbins
My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad—I've never changed my mind about that.
~ Carol Plum-Ucci
Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery, in which from time to time he goes to pray, a cemetery of bitterness and regret, of which he seeks the reason for certain of his failures.
~ Rend Leriche
War limits the deads. It limits them to the cimetery ... (La guerre limite les morts. - Les limite au cimetière...)
~ Charles de Leusse
My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history.
~ Christopher S. Wren
El reloj del cementerio se adelanta un poco.
~ Vicente Huidobro
Nottingham's Rock Cemetery, with its magnificent marble angels and sandstone catacombs.
~ Catharine Arnold
Een mooie avond,' zei Frits. 'Zoek jij ook graag de ellende van deze wereld? Wandel je Zondags ook graag op kerkhoven? De meeste mensen denken nergens aan.
~ Gerard Reve
In this city [Palermo] . . . it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children. . . . We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys.
~ Gianni Riotta
Change there will be, as there has been throughout these... years. For he who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
~ Harold Wilson, 1967
Probably the scariest thing about cemeteries is that music they play in your head when you drive by one.
~ Demetri Martin
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
We visit...a neighboring grave-yard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We moved to the house behind the cemetery at the beginning of July. By the beginning of August, I was very, very sick.
~ Charis Cotter
I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Behind anger, is hidden the cemetery. (Derrière la colère, - Se cache le cimetière.)
~ Charles de Leusse
War limits the deads. It limits them to the cimetery ... (La guerre limite les morts. - Les limite au cimetière...)
~ Charles de Leusse
Optimism... To whistle while passing a cemetery in the night; to sing a hymn while having a tooth pulled; to smile while being robbed.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though live ideas are born out of it. Worms, also, feed upon corpses.
~ Miguel de Unamuno