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  • If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

  • Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.

    Funny   Humor   Two  
  • If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

    Breathing   Lazy   Dying  
  • When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

    Texas   Parent   Goes On  
  • It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

    Strong   Thinking   Race  
    Margot Asquith (1925). “Places & Persons”
  • So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

    Men   People   Want  
  • I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

    Mother   Father   Lost  
  • Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.

    Running   Book   Law  
  • The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace

  • I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

    Real   Hero   Normandy  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

    Dog   Believe   Cat  
    "9 Reasons A Cat Should Be President" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2012.
  • Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

    Cheer   Lawns   Cemetery  
  • The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

  • We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

    Life   Believe   Health  
    FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Mar 06, 2013
  • Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead.

  • I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You.

  • I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

    Father   Book   Firsts  
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.14, Penguin
  • The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

    Men   Sea   Circles  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172
  • The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

    Death   Want   Foolish  
  • I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

    Cities   Calm   Cemetery  
    Yehuda Amichai, “I Have Become Very Hairy”
  • Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

    Men   Thinking   World  
    Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”
  • I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

  • Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

    War   Lying   Loss  
    "Where Have All the Graveyards Gone? The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors" by Adam Hochschild, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.
  • I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

  • There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

    Depression   Mind   Fit  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4858, e-artnow
  • Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

    Men   Thinking   World  
  • When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

    Baseball   Feet   Hitting  
  • A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

    Crazy   Men   Cemetery  
  • little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little room filled with little mice who gnaw and dance and run while I sleep waiting for a little death in the middle of a little morning in a little city in a little state my little mother dead my little father dead in a little cemetery somewhere. I have only a little time to tell you this: watch out for little death when he comes running but like all the billions of little deaths it will finally mean nothing and everything: all your little tears burning like the dove, wasted.

    Mother   Running   Dog  
    Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.308, Zondervan
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