Grave Quotes - page 2

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same. (Georg Büchner)
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
... vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. View quote
Edward Gibbon
The Grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou 'rt named: Nature, appall'd, Shakes off her wonted firmness. View quote
Robert Blair
But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble. View quote
Jane Jacobs
jealousy is the grave of affection. View quote
Mary Baker Eddy
Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. View quote
Thomas Browne
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave. View quote
Douglas Coupland
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say. View quote
Václav Havel
Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. (William Butler Yeats)
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul,' I cried. 'My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied.' View quote
William Butler Yeats
He who shall teach the child to doubt The rotting grave shall ne'er get out. View quote
William Blake
My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave Such end true lovers have. View quote
William Blake
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. View quote
Plutarch
One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave. View quote
William Wordsworth
She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me. View quote
William Wordsworth
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. View quote
Edward Bellamy
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. View quote
Henry Adams
Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive. (Wim Wenders)
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out. View quote
Vance Havner
There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe