Cemetery Quotes

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

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.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

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

War is the cemetery of futures promised.

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.