Churchyard Quotes

A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody. — George Herbert

Nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard — Nathaniel Hawthorne

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard. — Ronald Reagan

Come gaze about aged churchyard and behold
Those vanish'd hours of lead and hours of gold. — Timothy Salter

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard. — Philip Massinger

The churchyard. Walled in by houses and overrun with weeds, choked up with too much buying. — David Levithan

The blades sang like the strokes of a hammer on a blacksmith's anvil echoing in the empty churchyard. — Stanley Goldyn

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark. — Parke Godwin

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. — Edmund Burke

You can pray in the churchyard," the sergeant said. "The Lord has large ears. — Alan Bradley

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead. — Cecil Frances Alexander

I came to the village, and the churchyard where the dead had been quietly buried, "in the sure and certain hope" which Christmas time inspired. What — Charles Dickens

For my most gracious master still called me redhead, though my hair was already churchyard-coloured." And — Leo Perutz

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard. — Benjamin Jowett