Graveyard Quotes - Page 6

• How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.

  Neal Shusterman

  Kids, Wife, Forget

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.855, Simon and Schuster

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• Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

  David Nicholls

  Ambition, Welcome

  "Fictional character: Emma". One Day, www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.

  Ray Bradbury

  Daughter, Eye, Son

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “The Halloween Tree”, p.100, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  News, World, Christ

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• Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Book, Past, Years

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• I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.

  M.I.A.

  Weed, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, Facts, Layers

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We kill the women. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the cripples. We kill them all.... When you get through killing them all, go to the goddamn graveyard and kill them a-goddamn-gain because they didn't die hard enough.

  Khalid Abdul Muhammad

  Baby, Gains, Blind

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• You see where the fighter jets are so old that they can't get parts anymore. They have to go to plane - airplane graveyards and museums to get parts for our fighter jets that we're currently using. They don't make the parts. And you have other countries that have brand new equipment. And in some cases, we sell them the equipment. The whole thing is ridiculous.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Airplane, Museums

  Source: time.com

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• Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

  Neil Gaiman

  Crow, Way, Tidy

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.33, A&C Black

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• Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Jail, Difficult

  Interview With Javed Soomro, newslinemagazine.com. April 2005.

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• I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place where I hope that the book knows what it's doing because right now I don't have a clue - I'm writing one scene after another like a man walking through a valley in thick fog, just able to see the path a little way ahead, but with no idea where it's actually going to lead him.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Now, Jews integrate but they don't destroy their institutions. They don't close the synagogue. They don't stop having special Jewish graveyards. They don't stop having special Jewish holidays. Why can't we understand that we can have things special to us and still comingle and integrate with others.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Holiday, Special, Integrating

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• Our military has been so badly depleted. Who would think the United States is raiding plane graveyards to pick up parts and equipment? That means they're being held together by a shoestring. Other countries have brand-new stuff they have bought from us. It's insane.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Military, Mean

  Source: townhall.com

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• The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, America, Envy

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• Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

  James G. Stavridis

  Empires, Afghanistan

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• I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

  Elton John

  Depressing, Thinking, Musician

  "Elton John: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Death, Real, Towns

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• They say 'life is precious'. To who? To you, when you're young and you've got a few dollars in your pocket. Tell that to the 90-year-old lying awake at the graveyard shift in the nursing home, groaning with dementia. The only reason he hasn't killed himself is that he hasn't figured out a way he can do it with pudding.

  Doug Stanhope

  Lying, Home, Nursing

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• That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

  Ralph Nader

  Block, Democracy, Senate

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• ... where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more curious it is that birds are not falling out of the sky all the time, on our heads, at our feet, dying and falling and flopping to the ground. I rarely see a dead bird on the ground.

  Sophy Burnham

  Fall, Sky, Elephants

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.26, Penguin

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• The fact that there are no longer large units of Al Qaeda running around means you don't need B-52s. You need intelligence and special forces. And, most importantly, you need to resurrect Afghanistan from what is literally the graveyard of countries and transform it into a normal country, which the Afghans want.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Running, Country, Mean

  Source: progressive.org

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• A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Christmas, Weather, Green

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• Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

  Langston Hughes

  Resurrection, Poet

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.408, University of Missouri Press

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• Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

  James Mattis

  Soccer, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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