Buried Quotes - Page 25

• At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.

  Thomas H. Cook

  Beach, Memories, Loss

  Thomas H. Cook (2012). “The Crime of Julian Wells”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

  Mark Frost

  Enemy, Basements, Keep Your Friends Close

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• The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Real, Self

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• The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable

  Vince Lombardi

  Memories, Inspiration, Overcoming

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• Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

  Paulo Coelho

  Water, Alchemist, Treasure

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Fall, Autumn

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• Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Cosmos, Might, Energy

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• I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too. Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern.

  Wilson Rawls

  Believe, Heart, Two

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• As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memories, Bags, Scar

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some cases, buried. Now that time travel is the story itself, it opens up even more doors. So when an actor reads that they're getting killed off on the show, they're basically, like, 'Okay, but should I still bother to show up next week?'

  Damon Lindelof

  Fashion, Character, Doors

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• There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Horse, Typewriters, Alive

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• I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Soul, World, Lines

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.161, A&C Black

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• A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one reason thus. Purgatory fire will be more dreadful than whatever torments can be seen imagined, or endured in this world. He who is afraid now to put his finger into the fire, does he not fear lest he be then all buried in torments for a long time?

  Caesarius of Arles

  Fire, Long, World

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• Did you see all that? Did you see that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I could but I had no time. It really gets to me to see children being killed like this, but we had no choice.

  Matt Martin

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the word-easy, easy-only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys-that's all. Start her!

  Herman Melville

  Strong, Boys, Sea

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.317, Velvet Element Books

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• The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

  Will Durant

  Summer, Dog, Art

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

  Alastair Campbell

  Tombstone, Flower, Long Ago

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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• I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

  Euripides

  Luxury, Differences, Littles

  "Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion".

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• Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Educational, Pride

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• We could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God in the ground. God got up.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Hate, Long, Tree

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• Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Dies

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• But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Unique, Self

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.98, Open Road Media

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• Deadly emotions, buried alive, never die.

  Joyce Meyer

  Alive, Emotion, Dies

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• I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of hopelessness, of despair buried in the depths of poverty, violence, racism are more deadly than bullets. The gift of light, in our compassion, our listening, our works of love is the gift of life to ourselves.

  Janice Mirikitani

  Love Is, Compassion, Light

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• You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

  Claudia Rankine

  Past, World, Flesh

  "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, July 2, 2015.

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