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Quotes About Remains

but they found only a primitive structure sheltering two hundred gravesites.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The skeleton is the death: it's in our body... (Le squelette, c'est la mort : - Il est dans notre corps...)
~ Charles de Leusse
Being abused causes pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, and misery can only break what goodness remains.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
And all their remains. And not all the king's men nor his horses Will resurrect his corpus For there's no true spell in Connacht or hell (bis) That's able to raise a Cain.
~ James Joyce
Although two senior Irish diplomats were in Switzerland at the time, neither attended Joyce's funeral, and the Irish government later declined Nora's offer to permit the repatriation of Joyce's remains. Nora, who had married Joyce in London in 1931, survived
~ James Joyce
But years ago I had known the river when it flowed through this now dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains with the waters of memory.
~ Norman Maclean
Peppers are an ancient food in the Americas, and the remains of wild peppers dating back to 7000 B.C. have been found in human coprolites — fossilized excrement — uncovered 150 miles south of Mexico City.
~ Richard Schweid
she was next to the skeleton of what
~ Heather Graham
Alas! we wake: one scene alone remains-- The exiles by the streams of Babylon.
~ lazarus emma
a friend even went so far as to work in the crypt below the American Library—yes, the crypt, complete with the remains of the woman who had endowed the building. It was cool, it was marble, and as my friend reported, it was quiet, very quiet.
~ Tom DeMarco
Nothing remains except that which was written with blood to be listened to by blood
~ Pablo Neruda
All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.
~ Michael Moorcock
I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.
~ Wilkie Collins
The Tughluks have gone; Tughlukabad is a ruin; only Nizamuddin remains.
~ William Dalrymple
AS THE MIST LEAVES NO SCAR As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill, So my body leaves no scar On you, nor ever will. When wind and hawk encounter, What remains to keep? So you and I encounter, Then turn, then fall to sleep. As many nights endure Without a moon or star, So will we endure When one is gone and far.
~ Leonard Cohen
The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth.
~ Ken Ham
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.
~ Charles Lyell
Rotten luck," said Falstaff as I walked past. "There were the remains of a fine woman about Havisham.
~ Jasper Fforde
When I held in my hands the remains of Gunther, I had a strong feeling, like a phantom pain of an amputee.
~ Reinhold Messner
They turned. In the middle of the square three black and white vulturine scavengers with a wingspan of about six feet were disputing the dried remains of a cat. 'What do you call those?' asked Stephen. 'Those?' replied his guide, looking at them with narrowed eyes. 'Those are what we call birds, your worship.
~ Patrick O'Brian
in the air, there your root remains, there, in the air
~ Paul Celan
An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others.
~ Paulo Coelho
will continue on. For some, the thought was expressed by a bard a thousand years ago who wrote that at least what remains behind is the memory of glory once won.
~ William R. Forstchen
the worth of that is that which it contains, and that is this, and this with thee remains.
~ William Shakespeare