Buried Quotes - Page 9

• So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

  Angelina Grimke

  Earth, Napkins, Talent

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin

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• Everything edible is fried in Texas! Or it is buried in the ground to cook before it is eaten. ... Texas food should be forbidden! 'The steaks at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas!' And they are always afloat in grease. Next morning you are served a smaller steak, which serves as a platform for two fried eggs ... all of this afloat in the same grease! 'Chicken, you say? You bet! Comin' up!' Same grease! They are right. Comin' up! For hours afterwards. I couldn't believe the crust of an apple pie! Same grease!

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Morning, Believe, Heart

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• Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Memorial Day, Sorry, War

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• There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Gossip, Effort, Rumor

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to be, and as the Jews thought it was going to be, except there had been a resurrection from the dead. Then you can explain Christendom, churches, and literatures, if Christ rose again; but otherwise they cannot be explained at all. Our whole civilization rests on the broken Cross of the Master, and it is incredible that a civilization like this, in a world advancing steadily for eighteen centuries, has been founded on a lie.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Easter, Lying, Civilization

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• Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Country, Jerusalem, Ancestor

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.145, Macmillan

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• Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spring, Men, Long

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• December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.

  Lois Duncan

  Heart, Want, Months

  Lois Duncan (1989). “Don't Look Behind You”, Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers

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• It was easy to blame other people for treating me in ways I didn't like, but now I was seeing that I was the one at fault. The only way you can be mistreated is by allowing yourself to be mistreated, and that was something I did over and over again. Somehow, I needed to find that glimmer of self-respect, buried deep inside, that would allow me to say: I am never going to let that happen to me again. I needed to learn how to stand up for myself in a different way, but I didn't know how.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Self, People, Way

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• I don't have a problem with nudity. I never have. I was born naked. I'd like to buried naked. It's a way of life in Australia.

  Elle Macpherson

  Australia, Naked, Way

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• Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.

  Angela Thirkell

  Christmas, Long, Leaving

  Angela Thirkell (2016). “Northbridge Rectory”, p.129, Hachette UK

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• The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.

  Tertullian

  Mean, Son, Rose

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.876, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it.
  Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals.
  Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

  Li Cunxin

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Dream

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• Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

  Belle Boyd

  Children, Son, Boys

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• I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, Adventure, Animal

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• Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?

  Freya Stark

  Broken, Miracle, World

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

  Democritus

  Truth, Sea, Bottom

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• my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Two, Stories

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Laughter, Book, Play

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

  Rachel

  Queens, Writing, Dust

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• Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dad, Military, Arlington

  Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.147, Crown Archetype

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• One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Dark, Treasure, Buried Treasure

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• Some people were born just so they could be buried.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  People, Born

  Donald Ray Pollock (2011). “The Devil All the Time”, p.66, Random House

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• There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

  Frank Laubach

  Castles, Defeat, Fortune

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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• I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

  Tommy Douglas

  Girl, Years, People

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