Grave Quotes

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

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.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

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.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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.

Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

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

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

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

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

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

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.

The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave.

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.