Buried Quotes - Page 2

• What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

  Susan Griffin

  Fall, Past, Generations

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.123, Open Road Media

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• God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Voice, Avalanches

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  Yul Brynner

  Tombstone, Headstone, Feels

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• I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

  Ella Reeve Bloor

  Children, Agony, Government

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• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  e. e. cummings

  Knowledge, Imagination, Polite

  1951 'Jottings', in Wake, no.10.

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• I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Brother, Military, Texas

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

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• Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

  Isaac Butt

  Funeral, Littles, Birth

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• Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

  Will Harvey

  Today, Tomorrow, Pessimist

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• During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

  Jonny Lang

  Rocks, Bigs, Shows

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• I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.

  Tre Cool

  Dog, People, Snow

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

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• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  Uwe Boll

  Revenge, Stories, Alive

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• As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  "Actor, Activist Danny Glover: Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide “Mystified” at US Resistance to His Return". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 10, 2010.

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• I lost boundaries as a child that I didn't even realize it and it wasn't talked about back then. You know, it was something you just buried and dealt with, and moved forward. What could you do about it?

  Marie Osmond

  Children, Realizing, Boundaries

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• My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

  Rita Rudner

  Death, Husband, Grandmother

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• It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

  Peter O'Toole

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.

  Norman Parkinson

  People, Bears

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• Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

  Paul Harvey

  Future, Today, Tomorrow

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• We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

  Peter Akinola

  Grief, Missionary Zeal, Age

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• Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, People, Deep Thought

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• Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Emperor, Beggar, Beggary

  "La Matrone d'Ephèse", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 64-65, 1922.

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  Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Yoga, Positive Thinking

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• The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

  Frederick William Faber

  Rocks, Talent, Strikes

  Frederick William Faber (1866). “Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects”, p.343

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• After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

  Gloria Swanson

  Skeletons, Years, Intimidated

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

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• Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

  Crystal Chappell

  Alive, Fame, Claims

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• I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

  Douglas Hyde

  Wish, Language, Share

  Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Pr

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