Buried Quotes - Page 28

• Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.

  Vasily Grossman

  Flower, People, Funeral

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.135, Random House

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• When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spring, Eye, Joy

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• Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

  Boris Johnson

  Compassion, Sight, Feet

  "Trust me, being sacked isn't all bad". Daily Telegraph, December 2, 2004.

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• Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.

  Phil Knight

  Chance, Talent, Dare

  Phil Knight (2017). “Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

  Benito Mussolini

  Italian, Sheep, Race

  "Fascism and Democracy in the Human Mind : A Bridge Between Mind and Society" by Israel W. Charny, (p. 23), 2006.

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• Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot.

  Minnie Riperton

  African American, Soul, Singers

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• The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done - that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Real, Character, Independence

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.61, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Any change of my style, the way I've played for 10 years, will not be a drastic one. Yes, I've always given as good as I've got; as a forward you have to do that because, if you don't look after yourself, you might find yourself being thrown in a hole and buried.

  Alan Shearer

  Years, Style, Finding Yourself

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• I was to be buried inside my own creation, the better to keep its secrets. I will not tell you more, for your sake. But if you ask, I will answer.

  Jedediah Berry

  Secret, Answers, Sake

  Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.120, Penguin

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• The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.

  B. Traven

  Pain, Real, Lying

  B. Traven (1963). “The Treasure the Sierra Madre”

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• The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried.

  J.R. Miller

  Character, Men, Walks

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• We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Brother, Growing Up, Rooms

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• When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

  Louis L'Amour

  Regret, Father, Men

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “Last of the Breed”, p.284, Bantam

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• You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever.

  Jason Epstein

  Rest In Peace, Spring, Flower

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• Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.

  Ian Curtis

  Real, Mean, Past

  Ian Curtis (2014). “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Mistake, Mean

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• Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover. My outrageous and annoying computer personality who's about to be shut off at the behest of a half-crazy girl with OCD on a planet that I never heard of and how will I live without [her] when she's gone?

  Orson Scott Card

  Love, Girl, Crazy

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Xenocide: Book 3 of the Ender Saga”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Greatness, World

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• Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Children, Wall, Kids

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• Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.

  Jill Lepore

  Father, Records, Earth

  Jill Lepore (2013). “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”, p.16, Vintage

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• Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

  Pema Chodron

  Jewels, Mindfulness, May

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.248, Shambhala Publications

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• During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.

  Tony Horwitz

  War, Believe, Marine

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• Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.

  Nathaniel Lyon

  Children, War, Mean

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• Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Two, People, Forever

  "Carbon Chastity" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. May 30, 2008.

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• Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.

  Alex Pacheco

  Winter, Animal, Snow

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