Cemetery Quotes

Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live.

I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

One thing I learned is that it's never OK to walk through a cemetery dressed as a mummy - even if that was a shortcut on the way to the costume party.

[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents.

Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

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.

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You.

My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.

I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.

The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

Don’t carry your ideas to the grave untouched.

What could you possibly hope to find in a cemetary?" The women said. "The dead tell no secrets and the living seldom come to visit them.

It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.

Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate.

The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.

The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories.

My body weeps to livewhen you make me believe that someday I will be deadsoul sleepless in graveyard's bed

Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.

The harbour of influence is richer in the cemeteries where people are buried with their music on their tongues unsung. Don't leave your potentials untouched!