Quotes About Unclaimed

There were other war veterans in the neighborhood, visible thanks to their limps or missing limbs. All those unclaimed arms and legs lost in the fields of Flanders - Ursula imagined them pushing roots down into the mud and shoots up to the sky and growing once again into men. An army of men marching back for revenge.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

The body arrived soon enough: an unclaimed corpse from a nearby medical examiner. The guinea pigs? A cinch. Undergraduates will do anything for extra credit.

Last year, one of our divisions had to return over a billion dollars because they could not find anyone who qualified for it.

Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.

A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the last time. A piece was not exchanged, not a bit of it, a piece was left over. The rest was mismanaged.

Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed.

Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name? Although she has claim, she is not claimed. In the place where long grass opens, the girl who waited to be loved and cry shame erupts in her separate parts, to make it easy for the chewing laughter to swallow her all away. It was not a story to pass on.

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

This is my lifemate, who remains unclaimed and quite happy about it.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them.

She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

Whaddaya mean 'old maids,' ha? The term is 'unclaimed treasure,' buddy, 'unclaimed treasure!

Today in the United States, corpses that are unclaimed or unidentified or that no family member or friend can afford to bury are generally buried in mass graves. In Chicago, Illinois, they are buried in groups of about thirty-five in a memorial park. In New York City they are ferried to Hart Island for burial in a mass grave. These free burial sites are typically known as potter's fields.

I am a dead man who wanders registered nowhere

When he was dead, his body was cremated. The remains were thrown in a ditch marked "Common Grave Number One — unclaimed ashes 1930–42 inclusive.