Grave Quotes

I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.