Cemetery Quotes
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
Beverly Sills -
I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
Yves Chauvin
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Babe Ruth -
Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...
Vicki Baum -
I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
Yehuda Amichai -
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
Emile Zola -
The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on.
Vladimir Putin
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Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed me off, so I decided to put something in front of it to distract them. “I got '16' from a traditional American folk song, where a man is singing about his dead wife and 16 black horses are pulling her casket up to the cemetery. I liked the image of 16 working horses.
David Eugene Edwards -
Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
Rita Mae Brown -
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
Colonel Sanders -
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
Saul Bellow -
Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.
Jack Roy -
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
Everett Dirksen
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I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?
Steve Jobs -
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
Arthur Brisbane -
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
Miguel de Unamuno -
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents.
Judy Sheindlin -
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.
Steve Jobs
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A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.
Juan Manuel Fangio -
“If they don’t let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.”
Adolph Rupp -
It's rewarding being with these people, making a connection with them, and being able to take them out to the cemetery. It's just a real special time.
J. M. Roberts -
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
Simone de Beauvoir