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Quotes About Graveyard

My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Guadalcanal, wrote General Kawaguchi, was "no longer merely a name of an island in Japanese military history. It is the name of the graveyard of the Japanese Army.
~ Joseph Wheelan
Every graveyard and every cemetery testify that the Bible is true.
~ Billy Graham
I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from his slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise… He did the mash He did the monster mash The monster mash It was a graveyard smash…
~ Bobby Pickett
It was a happy cemetery.
~ Harper Lee
If people go out and start protests for everything, then entire Tamil Nadu will become a grave yard!
~ Rajinikanth
The court system is the graveyard where Trump's fanciful delusions will be laid to rest.
~ Chad Almadani
Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution.
~ Michael Parenti
Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency - which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndaclist revolution.
~ Michael Parenti
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.
~ Bram Stoker
The church was simply the former chapel of the castle, fronting upon its grass-grown court, which, however, was of generous enough width to have given up its quaintest corner to a little graveyard. Here the very headstones themselves seemed to sleep, as they slanted into the grass.
~ Henry James
A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomy-looking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a dull, moist snow-fall.
~ Henry James
It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." [ I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry , The Guardian, 5 June 2005]
~ Stephen Fry
Pittsburgh. I'd been there. One of the most underrated cities in North America. People who'd never been there thought of it as a graveyard of abandoned steel mills, but it was a beautiful city, and it would be good to have it back.
~ Steven Brust
Ya?am ne kadar ac?mas?z olursa olsun, mezarl?kta hep huzur vard?r.
~ Milan Kundera
My first kiss was actually in a graveyard.
~ George Ezra
I couldn't believe I'd so completely lost track of time, but I'd had monsters to fight, a police interrogation to deal with, a graveyard to search, my dad to send home, a mobster's brother's death to avert, a new job to learn, and an illegal auction to attend. It was a wonder I got anything done, really.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She glides through the night. He punches into it, a boxing glove with razor blades for knuckles. When she passes, the world is a better place. He leaves bloody footprints in a graveyard of bones.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Who owns the land adjoinig the cemetery?' 'That is reserved for the expansion of the cemetery.
~ Fritz Lang 'Destiny'
Dead people have the best conversations of all. Lots of people don't really speak until they're dead, because only then can they say all the things to each other in the graveyard that they have been keeping a secret all their lives.
~ Hugo Hamilton
The moon sailed up the star-shot sky and the air colled towards the graveyard hours beyond the midnight chilling my skin through my lace stole.
~ Storm Constantine
Ina stood and shuffled over to the urn on the fireplace. Stroked it with a twisted finger. "How are we supposed to get more consecrated soil, now? Taxi drivers always look at you so strangely when you get in with a shovel and say, 'Take me to the nearest graveyard.
~ Stuart MacBride
And we had seen a man at the amphitheater dressed as a pirate—the same day the prop room keys disappeared, Brian said. Yeah, moaned Michele. The same day we were looking in the trunk where the head was! Mother gave John a stern look. And you saw another pirate in the graveyard that night, said Jo Dee. Now Mother really glared at John who looked like he wondered if these were the same kids who had stayed with him all summer. They all grinned at John and giggled.
~ Carole Marsh
How terrifying empty beds were. The neatness of the sheets and blankets was like the neatness of a mowed and trimmed graveyard.
~ Caroline B. Cooney