Graves Quotes - Page 31

• This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat.

  Enver Hoxha

  Order, Chinese, Trying

  "Reflections on China, 1962-1972" by Enver Hoxha, Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, vol. I, 1979.

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• It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Writing, Egypt, Numbers

  "The Story Of The Bible". Book by Frederic G. Kenyon, Chapter III, How The Books Of The New Testament Were Written, p. 21, December 1935.

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• To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all!

  Aleksis Kivi

  Beautiful, Dream, Fall

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• coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.

  David Mermin

  Art, Writing, Discipline

  N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• Lying is before you and the grave is in front of you.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Lying, Fronts

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• I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

  Joseph Stalin

  Wind, Rubbish, Mercy

  "140 Conversations with Molotov". Book by Felix Chuev, 1991.

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• I'll remember this to my grave. We all walked into a room to see the screen tests. The first screen test was Marion Hutton's. Then came Janis Paige [who ended up with a part in the film]. Then on the screen came Doris Day. I can only tell you, the screen just exploded. There was absolutely no question. A great star was born and the rest is history.

  Sammy Cahn

  Stars, Tests, Rooms

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• When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' The feelings of heartfelt gratitude for the supreme sacrifice made by so many cannot be confined to a Memorial Day, a military parade, or a decorated grave.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Memorial Day, Gratitude, Military

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Nov 11, 2014

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• Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Kings, Military, War

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• By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Cute, Stupid, Koalas

  "Last night's TV" by Nancy Banks-Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2006.

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• The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.

  George Herbert

  Dark, Names, Doubt

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• The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

  Joseph Joubert

  Reflection, Light, Wings

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

  George Sand

  Flower, Oblivion, Grows

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• The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for life and immortality. Now may each man, who has the sentence of Adam upon him, know that he is a kinsman of the Son of God. Now may he follow Him; and so, when the darkness is thickest around him and within, not walk in it, but see the Light of Life.

  Frederick Denison Maurice

  Son, Men, Light

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• I look through the grave into heaven.

  Theodore Parker

  Heaven, Looks, Immortality

  Theodore Parker (1866). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology”, p.33

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• Happy the poet who with ease can steer
  From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
  [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
  Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Gay, Ease, Poet

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• O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

  Jessica Mitford

  Hands, Funeral, Victory

  Jessica Mitford (2011). “The American Way of Death Revisited”, p.14, Vintage

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• The greatness that would make us grave,
  Is but an empty thing.
  What more than mirth would mortals have?
  The cheerful man's a king.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Kings, Greatness, Men

  Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1814). “Love in a Village ... As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald”, p.14

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• True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Disappointment, Light, Benefits

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• Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.

  William Mountford

  Suicide, Men, Jewels

  William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.136

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• However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.

  James Martineau

  Summer, Fall, Heart

  James Martineau (1858). “Endeavors after the Christian life: discourses”, p.227

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• in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Death, Children, Play

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• It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.

  Viola Spolin

  Losing Everything, Daily Activities, Goal

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.12, Northwestern University Press

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• In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Cat, Next Day, Yellow

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.44, University of Toronto Press

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• There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Ignorance, Two, Goal

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