Grave Quotes

Don't go to the grave with life unused.
Bobby Bowden

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.
Ann Coulter

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Thomas Hobbes

Blame, Thoughts, Light

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.
Katherine Heigl

Person, Digging

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.
Pearl S. Buck

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry Adams

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, God, Learn

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Simple, May, Present

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.
Pericles

Time, Men, Parent

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.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Wedding, Remember, Friends

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.
Robert Duvall

Positive, Individual, Journey

I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
Wallis Simpson

Hate, Place, Shall

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
Ice T

Done, After, Negative

Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
Charles Ruff

Someone, Nation, Office

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

Angels, Angel, Arm

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.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Remember, Friends, Try

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

Power, Ambition, Rest

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Tryon Edwards

Death, May, Heaven

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

Revolution, Whoever, Halfway

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

Animal, Noble, Pompous

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.
Leon Panetta

Work, Past, Support

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
Tim Robbins

Freedom, Wanted, Whatever

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.
Jude Law

Work, Family, Home

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
Gerald Durrell

Write, Progress, Call

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.
Sinead O'Connor

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

Today, Soul, Against

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.
Alexander McCall Smith

Positive, Human, Cannot

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
Sally Field

Mean, Broken, Losing

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
Bob Considine

Work, May, Find

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
Luis Bunuel

Love, Few, Rise

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