The Cemetery Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about The Cemetery

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

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

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. — Demetri Martin

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

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead. — Henry IV

The office' is a cemetery of dreams. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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. — William J. Clinton

She wondered briefly if perhaps she could leave her broken heart here in the cemetery and just take the rest of her home. — Jen Meyers

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. — Emile Zola

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening. — Bill Clinton

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. — Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot go to the cemetery and ask to be enlightened on matters of this kind, though it would ease my mind considerably if you could. — William Maxwell

That cemetery had the attraction of a playground for me. — Kamel Daoud

The earth has lots of love to give, if you just know where to dig. My advice is start in the cemetery. — Jarod Kintz

The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery. — Robert Hass

The cemetery is full of indispensable people. — Winston Churchill

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. — Charles Baudelaire

My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history. — Christopher S. Wren

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop — Jose Marti

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. — Colonel Sanders

How about we walk back? Through the cemetery?' One thing my mom had taught me is that it's difficult to refuse requests made in italics. — The Harvard Lampoon

Breathing seemed harder in the cemetery, and selfish, somehow... — Sheri Webber

The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery. — Gottfried Leibniz

It was a happy cemetery. The — Harper Lee

I told her everything I could think of, even about my father being buried in the Protestant Cemetery. — John Cheever

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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. — Sophie Hannah

No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there. — Anna Kamienska

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. — Muhammad Iqbal

No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reign in the cemetery. — Milan Kundera

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

The University of Santa Teresa was like a cemetery that suddenly begins to think, in vain. It also was like an empty dance club. — Roberto Bolano

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone. — Franco Nero

Every mane should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friend. — Henry Adams

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

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful ... that's what matters to me. — Steve Jobs

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery - The Shadow of the Wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

Every graveyard and every cemetery testify that the Bible is true. — Billy Graham

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

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

Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

Conflict occurs everywhere except in the cemetery. Everyone experiences conflict except the dead. Thankful for being alive... — Assegid Habtewold

The cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in. — Italo Calvino

He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she'd fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery. — Katherine McIntyre

Why do we insist on being the carpenters of our own crosses? — John Zunski

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery. — Juan Manuel Fangio

Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before. — Susan Hubbard

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. — Hamdi Ulukaya

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

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire

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

Whoever this man was, he seemed to have less life than anyone in the cemetery. Above or below ground. — Anthony Horowitz

Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The cemetery is full of people who thought they could change themselves tomorrow. — Boonaa Mohammed

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. — Felix Alexander

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. — Tim McCarver

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again. — Francois Mauriac

You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian — Robin Williams

Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle. — Cornel West

Don't carry your ideas to the grave untouched. — Israelmore Ayivor

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in. — Arthur Brisbane

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? — Steve Jobs

Snow has turned the world into a cemetery.
But the world already was a cemetery
and the snow has only come to announce it. — Roberto Juarroz

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. — Malcolm X

I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery. — Robert Klein

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

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

They were dreamers - and they dreamt themselves into the cemetery. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life. — Jessica Sorensen

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. — Bo Jackson

The first three issues of 'Cemetery Dance' were mainly horror, but now it's really a cross-genre magazine. It's all just snowballed. — Richard Chizmar

The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin. — Laurie Halse Anderson

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery. — Joseph Stalin

Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard. — Myles Munroe

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. — Babe Ruth

In this city [Palermo] ... it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children ... We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys. — Gianni Riotta

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries. — Richard Brookhiser

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery. — Norman Vincent Peale

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave ... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral. — Simona Panova

(A writer's working space, Montaigne also believed, ought to have a good view of the cemetery; it tended to sharpen one's thinking.) — Oliver Burkeman

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Bible teaches that life does not end at the cemetery. There is a future life. — Billy Graham

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. — Harold Wilson

John Wesley's own grave holds the bones of many other people, including at least five ministers. One can only imagine the bickering. — Jared Brock

The goal is not to be the richest man in the cemetery. — Steve Jobs

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that. — Ross Perot

I agree, and I doubt coma boy will even notice. I mean seriously, the guy was buried alive for heaven's sake, I added.
-Cora — Andrea Heltsley

I wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery. — B. Traven

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. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery. — Tupac Shakur

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

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

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 — Mark Yudof

Where, in what cemetery of the heavens, did the tender words of lovers rest when they loved no longer? — Norman Mailer

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. — Pope John Paul II

Hebrew Confederate Cemetery on Shockoe Hill, which is the only Jewish military cemetery in the world outside the state of Israel. The — Maureen Egan

Pete took her hand and together they went out through the gate to the other side of the cemetery's iron railings; the side where the living belong. — Rosemary J. Kind

The silence of death, of the cemetery, was no punishment, but a reward for a life well lived. — Caitlin Doughty