Buried Quotes

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  Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Alive, Way

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

  Kin Hubbard

  Forgiveness, Forget, Hatchet

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• Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

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• Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

  Daniel Goleman

  Peace, War, Weight

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• Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me.

  Cassandra Clare

  I Love You, True Love, Angel

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Faith, Passion

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.154, Lulu.com

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• Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wall, Artist, Vaccines

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• Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Memories, Office, Failing

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• He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.

  Walter Benjamin

  Real, Past, Men

  "Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings".

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• How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!

  Plautus

  Obscurity, Genius

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• The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Race, United States, Problem

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• Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

  Jane Addams

  Pride, Hull House, Hospitality

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.33, Basic Books

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Reflection, Brain

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books

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• The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

  Juan Williams

  Country, War, Political

  "JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dust, Names, Sound

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

  Carol Shields

  Moving, Book, Reading

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• There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Gold, Debt, Treasure

  "No Man Knows My History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, Chapter 2, 1945.

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• We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.

  Ivica Dacic

  Country, Believe, Men

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• We are buried beneath the weight of information.

  Tom Waits

  Weight, Information, Quantity

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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• Grief is like sinking, like being buried.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Sinking

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

  George M. Cohan

  Worried, Curtain Call, Curtains

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• The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

  Plautus

  Lying, Sight, Talent

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• Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

  Edgar Bergen

  Plot, Communist, Show Me

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

  William T. Wiley

  Beauty, School, Kids

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• And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

  Ernst Toller

  Truth, Real, Simple

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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