Cemetery Quotes - Page 7

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

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Might, Let Me

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• I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'

  Hugo Wolf

  Music, Song, Want

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• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Brother, Father

  "Baseball as I Have Known It". Book by Fred Lieb, p. 154, 1977.

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• 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

  Party, Way, Shortcuts

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• I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.

  Barbara Hutton

  Truck

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• I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).

  Manis Friedman

  Children, War, Believe

  "Ask the Rabbis // How Should Jews Treat Their Arab Neighbors?". www.momentmag.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries.

  Cesar Romero

  Hate, Dating, Age

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• The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.

  Robert Montgomery

  Air, Names, Theatre

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• On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, War, Towns

  Katherine Paterson (2003). “Preacher's Boy”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.

  Samantha Abeel

  Depression, Lonely, Mean

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• I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Mother, Father, Lost

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• I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Men, Race, Long

  Epitaph on his grave in Lancaster, Pensylvania,

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• In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Taken, Dark, Midnight

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.35, Weiser Books

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, Real, Breathing

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

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• 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

  People, Listening, President

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• 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

  Years, Magic, England

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• [From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

  Dorothy Parker

  Might, Hello, Window

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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

  California, Doubt, Secret

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

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• There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of the local Native American tribes, and it occurred to me one day that if you really wanted to get away with murder, you'd kill someone, put them in a coffin and bury them in a private cemetery or, better, an abandoned one. And then suddenly this whole idea of a long con appeared before me and I had this idea of using a Jewish cemetery.

  Tod Goldberg

  Spring, Native American, Airports

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery.

  Tom DeLay

  Fighting, Israel, Cells

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• I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Adventure, Magazines, Stuff

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• Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two.

  N.D. Wilson

  Kings, Book, Ideas

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• Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

  J. D. Salinger

  Death, Hope, Flower

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the Muse from giving me that terrible kiss. All of you who have ever been kissed by the Muse will surely understand that Oskar, once branded by that kiss, was condemned to take back the drum he had rejected years before, the drum he had buried in the sand of Sapse Cemetery.

  Gunter Grass

  Kissing, Years, Giving

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