Grave Quotes

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

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.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.