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People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse. — Sarah Parcak

Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

I'd like another dimension of space, and also the tombs and the dead women, please. — Margaret Atwood

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll

You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living. — Khalil Gibran

Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses. — Horace

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life. — Adolf Hitler

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

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair. — Clarence Darrow

Dante, or the hyena that writes poetry in tombs. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no tombs at which to worship. — Billy Graham

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs. — George Eliot

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Marriage is the tomb of friendship. — Hannah Webster Foster

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. — Robert Smithson

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb? — Khalil Gibran

Say NO to nuclear bombs otherwise it may take us all to our tombs. — Vinita Kinra

Tobacco is the tomb of love. — Benjamin Disraeli

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail. — Madame De Stael

But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (Moby Dick; Chap 7 p36) — Herman Melville

There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do. — Ryan Lindley

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb — George Orwell

Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble. — H. Rider Haggard

Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death. — Nathalia Crane

The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly? — Martial

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

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. — Herman Melville

I laughed, disarmed. "Shopping isn't really my thing. Not when there are bookstores to be plundered and tombs to be explored. — Kate Mulgrew

References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual — Dan Brown

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs. — Marie-Luise Gothein

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

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs. — Alphonse De Lamartine

She was going to walk into the Sunken City and empty every stinking hole in the Tombs. Let LeBlanc's Goddess explain that to the mob. — Sharon Cameron

And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. — Thomas Hardy

I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet. — Zahi Hawass

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities. — Stephen Kinzer

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

One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living, and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. Childless — J.R.R. Tolkien

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. — Seneca The Younger

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington