Cemetery Quotes - Page 5

• I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary;
  Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary,
  You might have to pull your AK, send one to the cemetery.

  Killer Mike

  Kings, Rap, Hip Hop

  "Song: "Lie, Cheat, Steal"("Run the Jewels 2")". 2014.

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• I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Goal, Guy

  "TRANSCRIPT–Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at D5". Interview With Kara Swisher, allthingsd.com. May 30, 2007.

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• The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Powerful, People

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jun 09, 2016

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• Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

  Zhang Xin

  Support, Entrepreneur, Guy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

  Margot Asquith

  Strong, Thinking, Race

  Margot Asquith (1925). “Places & Persons”

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• The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.

  Phillip Adams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Tombstone

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• I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

  Charles Barkley

  Skeletons, Closets, Whole

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• A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Song, Dust

  Marcel Proust, Joachim Neugroschel, Roger Shattuck (2003). “The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust”, p.127, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.

  Gena Showalter

  Sound, Clubs, Might

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.139, HQN Books

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• One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?

  Margaret Atwood

  Anchors, Church, Alive

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Solitude, Feelings

  "Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Part II, Chapter III, 1951.

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• It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Moving, Curriculum, Easier

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• A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Crazy, Men, Crazy Man

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• I sit at my desk
  each night with no place to go,
  opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo,
  the whole U.S.,
  its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,
  through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

  Anne Sexton

  Night, Time Zones, Veins

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be honest with yourself and with people always do everything on time. Never give up, go to your goals, even if all the bad. In this life, all really, you only need to do. The more I talk to people, the more I am convinced that in general they have one goal - to become the richest dead in the cemetery.

  Steve Jobs

  Giving Up, People, Goal

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• The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Ideas, Newspapers

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.262, AK Press

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• Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.

  Karen Russell

  Mother, Grief, Flower

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• "Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."

  Oscar Romero

  Peace, Fear, Ubuntu

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• Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Cheer, Lawns

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• A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Wall, Machines, Plant

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• Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn't resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There's just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out.

  Guy Maddin

  Art, Night, House

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

  Saul Bellow

  Retirement, Golf, Too Much

  Saul Bellow (2009). “The Actual: A Novella”, p.38, Penguin

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• 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.

  Joseph Pilates

  Breathing, Lazy, Dying

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• I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.

  Scott Raab

  Summer, Memorial Day, Uncles

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

  Daniel Handler

  Why Not, Littles, Graves

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.156, Egmont UK

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