Graves Quotes - Page 29

• How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Two, Forget

  National Anti-Slavery Standard, 27 Apr. 1867

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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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• Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.

  Yukio Mishima

  Sweet, Hands, Long

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.

  Ted Dekker

  Blood, Veins, Drink

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• Now is the time to give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come. Give them to me while my heart beats, give them today while my heart yearns for jubilee. Now is the time.

  Mzwakhe Mbuli

  Time, Stress, Heart

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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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• I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

  Charlie Munger

  Odds, House

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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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• I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave.

  Khalid Abdul Muhammad

  Men, White Man, Giving

  "Nation of Islam Associate: Ex-Official Dies After Suffering Hemorrhage". www.beliefnet.com.

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• Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

  Patrick Pearse

  Spring, Men, Patriot

  "The Cause Of Ireland" by Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast, (p. 226), 1994.

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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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• Dennis Wise, Vinnie Jones and John Fashanu must be turning in their graves

  Carlton Palmer

  Wise

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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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• I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.

  John Squire

  Rose, Desire, Groups

  "No Second Coming Says Stone Roses Man". thequietus.com. March 19, 2009.

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• I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus which I expect to be the grave of Osiris, the god.

  Zahi Hawass

  Osiris, Pyramids, Feet

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• All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against the next boatload approaching the shore. To defend one’s home and fields and ancestral graves against invasion seems a right. But to claim unique possession – to compound the fact of settlement with the aspect of a landscape into an abstract of eternal and immutable ownership – is a joke.

  Neal Ascherson

  Home, Unique, Population

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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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• Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Essence

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• Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

  Philip Yancey

  Pleasure, Danger

  Philip Yancey (2002). “The Bible Jesus Read: An Eight-session Exploration of the Old Testament Participant's Guide”, p.97, Harper Collins

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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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• Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Dream, Entrepreneur, Important

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