Buried Quotes

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  Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Alive, Way

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

  Kin Hubbard

  Forgiveness, Forget, Hatchet

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• Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

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• Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

  Daniel Goleman

  Peace, War, Weight

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• The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Faith, Passion

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.154, Lulu.com

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• Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wall, Artist, Vaccines

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• He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.

  Walter Benjamin

  Real, Past, Men

  "Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings".

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• The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Race, United States, Problem

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• Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

  Paul Harvey

  Future, Today, Tomorrow

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• Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Emperor, Beggar, Beggary

  "La Matrone d'Ephèse", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 64-65, 1922.

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• I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

  Coolio

  Book, Reading, School

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• I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

  Douglas Hyde

  Wish, Language, Share

  Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Pr

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• Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

  Crystal Chappell

  Alive, Fame, Claims

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• The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

  Russell Banks

  New York, House, John Brown

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• I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Names, People

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter 6, Scene 20), 44 BC.

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• Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Air, Done, May

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• People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Work, Health, People

  Henrik Ibsen (2014). “Ibsen Plays: 4: John Gabriel Borkman; Pillars of Society; When We Dead Awaken”, p.227, A&C Black

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• After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

  Gloria Swanson

  Skeletons, Years, Intimidated

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

  Erma Bombeck

  Home, Forever, Spices

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• They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.

  George Clooney

  World, Faults, Truth Is

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• Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Flower, Thinking, May

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• My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Roots, Childhood

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.111, Da Capo Press

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• I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

  Phyllis Diller

  Yards, Housework

  "Phyllis Diller, zany humorist and comedy trailblazer, dies aged 95". www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2012.

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• The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

  Frederick William Faber

  Rocks, Talent, Strikes

  Frederick William Faber (1866). “Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects”, p.343

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• I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

  Jerry Falwell

  Alcohol, Age, Lots Of Friends

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