(20 quotes found)
“There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II... Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy?”
Conan O'Brien
“I am one by myself, one, said Mortimer, "high up an awful staircase commanding a burial-ground, and I have a whole clerk to myself, and he has nothing to do but look at the burial-ground, and what he will turn out when arrived at maturity, I cannot conceive. Whether, in that shabby rook's nest, he is always plotting wisdom, or plotting murder; whether he will grow up, after so much solitary brooding, to enlighten his fellow-creatures, or to poison them; is the only speck of interest that presents itself to my professional view."”
Charles Dickens
“For me personally, some of the mysteries often center on their burial places.”
Betty Koed
“This is a burial by the people, not a party.”
Zoran Andjelkovic
“We are reading the first page in a thriller that will end either in resurrection or the death and burial of an entire industry as we know it today.”
William Rochelle
“I think it should be given a reasonable burial,”
Tony Blair
“The Hanford site already has radioactivity from burial (of nuclear waste) over the last 40-50 years leaking into the Columbia River -- that's admitted by the Department of Energy. And, radioactivity was known to be in the tumbleweeds back in December (of 1998). That was admitted. That's what's burning right now.”
Diane D'Arrigo
“Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Since such a method of burial had never been seen before, either in the Burnt City or in any historical site, we can not yet determine the reason for such kind of burial. However, the evidence indicates that this 35-year-old man must have been died in this position while suffering a severe pain, and since the corpse was dried its shape could not have been changed and was buried in the same position.”
Farzad Forouzanfar