Graves Quotes - Page 18

• When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Death, Summer, Lying

  "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".

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• Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Lying, Home

  Underwoods "Requiem" (1887). Engraved on Stevenson's tomb in Samoa, with the seventh line reading "home from the sea," which is a frequently quoted variant.

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• I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

  Shahid Afridi

  Shining, Bats, Balls

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• I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

  Robert Browning

  Inspiration, Watches, Milton

  'The Lost Leader' (1845)

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• On Friday a thief, on Sunday a King...the man Jesus Christ laid death in his grave!

  John Mark McMillan

  Friday, Jesus, Kings

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• It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

  Nelson Mandela

  Errors, Leader, Criticism

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2017

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• Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.

  Howard Fineman

  Men, People, Challenges

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• You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last name. When the trumpet blares, there will be no more kings, only slaves. And your family traditions will not be able to keep you safe.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Kings, Father, Names

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• Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Nature, Class

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

  John Milton

  Nature, Womb, His Dark Materials

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.160

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• And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

  Audre Lorde

  Responsibility, Safe, Settling

  Audre Lorde (1978). “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power”, Crossing Press

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• Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mother, Path, Steps

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• The same power that stopped the sun and raised Christ from the grave lives in every believer!

  Steven Furtick

  Sun, Christ, Raised

  Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.20, Multnomah

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• In our natural Adamic state, we are not on our sick beds. We are in the grave.

  Keith Mathison

  Sick, Bed, Natural

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• I think something must happen to you when you get into eight grade. Like the Doug Swieteck's Brother Gene switches on and you become a jerk.
  Which may have been Hamlet, Prince of Denmark's problem, who, besides having a name that makes him sound like a breakfast special at Sunnyside Morning Restaurant--something between a ham slice and a three-egg omelet--didn't have the smarts to figure out that when someone takes the trouble to come back from beyond the grave to tell you that he's been murdered, it's probably behooveful to pay attention--which is the adjectival form.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Morning, Brother, Smart

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• I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

  Jean Reno

  Romance, Trying, Film

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• I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Years, Made

  "The Case Against Obama - In His Own Words" by Lorie Byrd, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 22, 2008.

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• The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach us the character of God, and by example and precept pointed out the path which, if we walk in it, will lead us back into his presence. He came to break the bands of death with which man was bound, and made possible the resurrection by which the grave is robbed of its victory and death of its sting.

  Heber J. Grant

  Christmas, Character, Men

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• There is not any haunt of prophecy,
  Nor any old chimera of the grave,
  Neither the golden underground, nor isle
  Melodious, where spirits gat them home,
  Nor visionary south, nor cloudy palm
  Remote on heaven's hill, that has endured
  As April's green endures; or will endure
  Like her remembrance of awakened birds,
  Or her desire for June and evening, tipped
  By the consummation of the swallow's wings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Spring, Home, June

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.22, Vintage

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• I gazed upon the glorious sky
  And the green mountains round,
  And thought that when I came to lie
  At rest within the ground,
  'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June
  When brooks send up a cheerful tune,
  And groves a joyous sound,
  The sexton's hand, my grave to make,
  The rich, green mountain-turf should break.

  William C. Bryant

  Spring, Lying, June

  William Cullen Bryant, “June”

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• The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.

  Paul Kurtz

  Leaving, Atheism, Deceit

  Paul Kurtz “Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz”, Transaction Publishers

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• In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will germinate when the warm south wind of Christ's return brings back the spring-tide to this cold sin-cursed earth of ours; and then they that are in their graves, and we who shall lie down in ours, will feel in our mortal bodies the power of His resurrection, and will come forth to life immortal.

  David McMurtrie Gregg

  Jesus, Easter, Lying

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• He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

  Hammond Innes

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose heart, lose their morale. They will become such a shiftless, lazy, apathetic, lethargic people that you won't be able to get half of them to work. Many will not be motivated by anything.

  Shelton Smith

  Atheist, Heart, People

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