Graves Quotes - Page 12

• There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

  William Carey

  Christian, Prayer, Hands

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• O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees It is a love in darkness wrought obedient to the unseen sun, longer than memory, a thought deeper than the graves of time. The turning spindles of the cells weave a slow forest over space, the dance of love, creation, out of time moves not a leaf, and out of summer, not a shade.

  Kathleen Raine

  Summer, Dream, Memories

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.19, SteinerBooks

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• Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Risk, Innovation

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• When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Joy, Spirit

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• Super silver, Hawaiian haze Sativa, indica, Solomon's grave Genesis, chapter one verse twelve ways Marijuana, hashish, everybody blaze Fuels and fibers, energy saved When the natives met the travelers, guess what they gave All praise due to the seeds they raised And the people all over the world that smoke J's Kings and queens, musicians, actors Everyday, working class, stoners, slackers Low key blazers and green bowl packers If Mary Jane is in the house then I'm gon' mack her This is dedicated to everybody in the world that smoke weed Legalize it

  Aceyalone

  Weed, Kings, Queens

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• Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot with another's lest you see their advantages and lose the joy of what you already have.]

  Solomon

  Gratitude, Fire, Flames

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• We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

  Omar Khayyam

  Chess, Boards, Pieces

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: In English Prose”

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• A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Past, Digging

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• I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Believe, Responsibility, Liberty

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• I'll always have the memories of guys I lost in Vietnam. And I've lost friends since the war, but I'll always have the memories. The riches are great, but riches aren't everything, because when you go you can only take your memories and your word and your honor to the grave with you.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Memories, War, Guy

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• To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.

  Aileen Fisher

  Mistake, Cat, Eye

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• [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.46, Booklassic

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• They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Memorial Day, Loss, Causes

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• Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Honesty, Lying, Character

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• One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Motherhood

  'A Poet's Epitaph' (1800)

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• When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

  Rumi

  Courage, Heart, Garden

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.100, Shambhala Publications

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• Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Light, Government, Liberty

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• The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

  Anthony de Mello

  Change, Lying, Looks

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• Grammar is the grave of letters.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Letters, Grammar

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independence, Slavery, Sacred

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.396, Library of America

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• He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer.' He believed that happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep tonight beneath a wilderness of flowers. . . .

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Summer, Flower

  Cameron Rogers, Robert Green Ingersoll (1927). “Colonel Bob Ingersoll: a biographical narrative of the great American orator and agnostic”

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• Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Catholic, Killing

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Flames, Ashes

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.735, Delphi Classics

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• Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Country, Taken

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• There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Mean, Errors, Doctrine

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