Cemetery Quotes - Page 8

• I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

  Charles Durning

  Real, Hero, Normandy

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

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• True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Memories, Thinking, Honor

  Ambrose Bierce (2002). “Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, p.280, Forge Books

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• Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

  Paul Eldridge

  Life, Death, Tombstone

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• Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.

  Graves B. Erskine

  Memorial Day, Military, Marine

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• When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

  Tim McCarver

  Baseball, Feet, Hitting

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• Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Life, Flower, Injustice

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• I want a room decorated with bones!" Dan said. "Where'd they come from?" "Cemeteries," Amy said. "Back in the 1700s, the cemeteries were getting overcrowded, so they decided to dig up tons of old bodies–all their bones–and move them into the Catacombs. The thing is...look at the dates. See when they started moving bones into the Catacombs?" Dan squinted at the screen. He didn't see what she was talking about. "Is it my birthday?

  Rick Riordan

  Moving, Talking, My Birthday

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• Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

  Vicki Baum

  Loss, Filling Up, Watches

  Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London

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• You're bored, aren't you.' 'I need constant distraction. Shall we go?' 'Uh, aren't you supposed to delegate responsibility or something? If you're not here, who's in charge?' Skulduggery looked around and pointed to a sorcerer at the far side of the cemetery. 'He is.' 'Who is he?' 'Don't know. He looks like leadership material, though, doesn't he?' 'Does he?' 'He's wearing a hat.' 'And that means he's a leader?' 'Leaders wear hats. It's to keep the rain off while we make important decisions. He'll do fine.' 'Shouldn't you tell him that he's in charge?' 'And spoil the surprise?

  Derek Landy

  Rain, Mean, Responsibility

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• Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening

  Mark Yudof

  California, People, Listening

  "Big Man on Campus". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. September 24, 2009.

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• Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

  Daniel Handler

  Why Not, Littles, Graves

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.156, Egmont UK

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• As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally.

  Ann Coulter

  Office, Important, President

  "Happy Giving Tree Festival To All, And To All A Good Night!". www.anncoulter.com. December 22, 2004.

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• little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little room filled with little mice who gnaw and dance and run while I sleep waiting for a little death in the middle of a little morning in a little city in a little state my little mother dead my little father dead in a little cemetery somewhere. I have only a little time to tell you this: watch out for little death when he comes running but like all the billions of little deaths it will finally mean nothing and everything: all your little tears burning like the dove, wasted.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Running, Dog

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.308, Zondervan

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• Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.

  Rene Leriche

  Praying, Surgeons, Carrie

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• I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Brother, Military, Texas

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

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• I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.

  Robert Crais

  Dog, Real, People

  "THR's Book of the Week: 'Suspect' by Robert Crais " by Andy Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

  Red Adair

  Home, Years, Half

  "Oil Well Firefighter Adair Dies" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2004.

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• Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dad, Military, Arlington

  Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.147, Crown Archetype

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• As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dedication, Ideas, Two

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• Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality.

  Andre Breton

  Memories, Moving, Love You

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch Pet Cemetery as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldnt sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.

  Jessica Stroup

  Sleep, Kids, Animal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Tunnels, Bridges

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• Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.

  Meg Cabot

  Running, Book, Law

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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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• Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then to honour his death every year by sending flowers. Unlike most of my vows, I kept it. But I’ve never been back to his graveside. I’d like to go there again one day, before I finally join him on the other side.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Flower, Views, Years

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