Cemetery Quotes

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. (Steve Jobs)
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me. View quote
Steve Jobs
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. View quote
Harold Wilson
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. View quote
Malcolm X
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. View quote
Babe Ruth
The young people of Germany have no problem with Judaism. I too, with my two sons sometimes walk across the Jewish cemetery in Oggersheim. View quote
Helmut Kohl
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. View quote
Pope John Paul II
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery. View quote
André Malraux
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. (Miguel de Unamuno)
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
He avoids the official "heroes'" cemetery, done in such impeccable taste. (Why, he wonders, do the Germans do so much for their dead and so little for the living?) View quote
Heinrich Böll
I am a cemetery loathed by the moon. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery. View quote
Joseph Stalin
I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all. View quote
Gottfried Leibniz
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. View quote
Aristide Briand
I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes. View quote
Charles Durning
I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that. (F. Murray Abraham)
A crazy man finishes in the cemetery. View quote
Juan Manuel Fangio
.. the great white blanket of snow [in one of his painting of Cemetery / Church in the Snow, mid-1820's].... the essence of the utmost purity, beneath which nature prepares herself for a new life.. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery? View quote
Daniel Handler
Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening. View quote
Bill Clinton