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Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel inside the tomb first?
- Riley Poole — Ann Lloyd

Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I saw Byzantium in a dream and knew that I would die there.. and the golden towers of Byzantium would be my tomb ~ Aidan — Stephen R. Lawhead

Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. — Ambrose Bierce

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb. — Josh McDowell

Stay where I am? Jesus Christ, what choice do I have? This house is twenty-five hundred square feet of tomb. I'm not alive. I'm buried alive. — Rachel Caine

Jesus' tomb wasn't His grave, but our door. — Patricia Raybon

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb. — Isaac McLellan

Without love, our earth is a tomb — Robert Browning

Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.' — Megan Fox

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn. — Victor Hugo

I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb. — Richard Elman

There are wise ways to enter a tomb cavern. Falling is not one of them. — Jenna Burtenshaw

Fuck off, I said. Which always means I've lost an argument. I started backing out of the tomb. — Rainbow Rowell

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name. — Karl Shapiro

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? — Faraaz Kazi

Not a Saint!" Akasha proclaimed, in bricks. "This is the Tomb of God Incarnate!"
"Always did figure that sucker was dead," muttered Waites. — David James Duncan

When the hell is Warren Moon going to retire? I mean, this guy is older than the cuneiform in Nebuchadnezzar's tomb. — Dennis Miller

I seal that
which was not to be said in the tomb that I become. — Umberto Eco

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived ... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. — George Crabbe

I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball. — Jose Canseco

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. — Robert Emmet

the mind is a treasure
trove, an almanac, a tomb. — Beth Morey

Marriage is the tomb of love. — Giacomo Casanova

(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die. — Charles Lamb

Marriage is the tomb of friendship. — Hannah Webster Foster

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. — Francis Bacon

Life is not meant to just zoom from the womb to the tomb. Slow down ... Enjoy the Journey! -RVM — R.v.m.

It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on one big giant tomb! — Jeffrey Eugenides

We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The heavy smell of incense gave me an uneasy feeling as if I had walked into a tomb — Nancy B. Brewer

This building, the tower that was supposed to be the centerpiece of your little Gotham Initiative? Now it'll be your tomb. — Scott Snyder

It would have made a fitting tomb, she supposed, for Thady Boy Ballagh. That it was fitting for Francis Crawford she would not believe. — Dorothy Dunnett

The mustiness that permeated the apartment, its whole subterranean atmosphere, was redolent of an abandoned tomb. — Jose Saramago

The past was ruins, but the present was still in play. They would have to tie him down to keep him from going to Ember's Tomb. — Lev Grossman

Memories are fragile; they can be broken and forgotten or preserved like a tomb. — Tony Conte

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart ... converted it into a tomb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. — Walter Savage Landor

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. — Thomas Gray

Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die ? — Nick Land

The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it. — Howard Tomb

What about King Tut's tomb?" I protested.
"That boy king?" Zia rolled her eyes. "Boring. You should see some of the good tombs. — Rick Riordan

It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell. — Stephanie Zacharek

Full circle, from to tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come — Joseph Campbell

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
[Alexander's tombstone epitaph] — Alexander The Great

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn. — Victor Hugo

Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb.. — Solomon

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

Wow!" Fin let out a sharp whistle. "You look hot, Dez. You can raid my tomb whenever you'd like. — Jus Accardo

The tomb of ancient Egyptian Great Chief of the Oryx, Baqet III (2500 B.C.) — Jessie Perault

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

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in. — Timothy Keller

Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire. — Solomon

The final notes of the funeral march dropped like violets onto the tomb of the hero — Jose Saramago

History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead. — Tony Hendra

mountains, and cried: 'That is the tomb of Kochoi, the companion of Manas! — Colin Thubron

Mort chuckled when she staggered through the tomb door. "Witch Slayer, are you? Another lovely title to add to your repertoire. — Sarah J. Maas

He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. — Victor Hugo

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. — Lewis Mumford

Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Three kilometres beneath the camp, sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, and whatever secret it may hold, is sealed within a frozen tomb. — L.A. Larkin

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. — Anthony Sampson

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb. — Rod Steiger

In a fleshy tomb I am buried above ground. — William Cowper

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. — James Beattie

Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Music helps to forget
This forsaken tomb,
That is my abode
Cellars down
Far below
Under the ground, ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb. — Horace

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA. — Bram Stoker

Before an empty tomb, we will come to know that Christ our Lord has burst the bands of death and stands forever triumphant over the grave. — Bruce R. McConkie

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb. — William Shakespeare

You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man. — Rick Riordan

Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb. — Elie Wiesel

We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave. — Carolee Dean

The launch of 'Tomb Raider III' was actually my first experience of the games industry. — Rhianna Pratchett

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. — Plato

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb — Kim Wilde

I hate beds," she said slowly. "They stand there night after night waiting for you to die in them. It's like lying in a tomb. — Susan Kay

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe! — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words. — Anthony Burgess

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune. — Michel De Montaigne

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead — Alexei Nikolaevich

I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb. — Chris Smith

Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. — Benito Mussolini

For the greedy there will be no tomb — Ptahhotep

In a fleshly Tomb, I am Buried above ground. — William Cooper

The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. — Sterling Hayden

If I should pass the tomb of Jonah I would stop and sit for a while. For I was buried one time deep in the dark and came out alive after all. — Anonymous

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop. — George MacDonald

Easter is the final solution to the finality of death. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind. — Winston Churchill

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! — Jules Verne

I broke into shakespeare's tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game — Nas

My body is not a tomb for other creatures. — Leonardo Da Vinci