Graves Quotes - Page 23

• They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Motivational, Lying, Light

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• There are times to kill and times not to kill. Please bear this in
  mind with grave consideration.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Mind, Bears, Consideration

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• My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.

  Richard Bowes

  Grandfather, Would Be, Spots

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• The wife's Mother said, ‘When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I'm being buried at sea’.

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Sea, Wife

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.14, Michael O'Mara Books

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• I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Believe, Wmds In Iraq

  Senate debate on using military force against Iraq, October 9, 2002.

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• States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Iraq, Mass Destruction

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

  Edward Hoagland

  Religion, Atheism, Vivid

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• It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

  Edward Abbey

  Good Life, Laughing, Way

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

  Thomas Gray

  Beauty, Path, Wealth

  'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751) l. 29

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• He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Years, Littles

  "Drama Team Handbook". Book by Alison Siewert, 2003.

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• I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

  Adolph Rupp

  Motivational, Sports, Giving

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• When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.

  Ambrose

  Temptation, Want, Helping

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• I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.

  Sam Houston

  Wish, Ruins, Unions

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• Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

  "Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.

  Edgar Cayce

  Thinking, People, Form

  Edgar Cayce (2010). “The Power of Your Mind”, p.80, ARE Press

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• Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Democracy, Able, Birth

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Believe, People, Answers

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.11, NYU Press

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• That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Errors, Doe, Made

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• Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

  Ben Bradlee

  Tape, Faces, Smile On My Face

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• There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

  Paul Erdos

  Plenty

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• If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

  Matthew Simpson

  Fear, Angel, Son

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Glad tidings to the one who leaves the world before it leaves him, prepares for his grave before he enters it, and pleases his Lord before he meets Him.

  Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi

  World, Lord, Please

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• Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.

  Homer

  Soul, Sorrow, Sad Soul

  Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.55

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• Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country, George Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, these were not conservatives; these were the radicals of the time. In fact, conservatives always look back on people who they despised and make them into heroes. If you were to listen to the religious right today, they would make you believe that Martin Luther King was one of their flock. In reality, they hated him and did everything they could to destroy him.

  Tony Campolo

  Country, Religious, Kings

  "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.

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• Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the
  only cause that you can't die for.

  Leonard Orr

  Mistake, Forever, Causes

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