(231 quotes found)
“I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.”
Jessica Mitford
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
Virginia Woolf
“My lands are where my dead lie buried.”
Tashunka Witko 'Crazy horse'
“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”
Sydney J. Harris
“No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.”
Croesus of Lydia
“Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.”
John Donne
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones.”
William Shakespeare
“Your Honor, I am in a difficult position. The news media has already executed me and buried me...If anyone is hypnotized, the people are hypnotized by the lies being told to them...There is no attorney in the world who can represent me as a person. I have to do it myself.”
Charles Manson
“Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.”
Italo Calvino
“Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited - every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contr”
Washington Irving