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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields! -- Tennessee Williams
I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries. -- Cesar Romero
I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries. -- Walter Dean Myers
Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries. -- Klaus Kinski
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men. -- Donald Rumsfeld
If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries. -- Bill Hicks
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground. -- Zach Roerig
Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected. -- Allen West
It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. -- Margot Asquith
When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries. -- Jenny Lawson
In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant. -- Mark Helprin
Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.' -- Viggo Mortensen
I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly. -- Robert Crais
I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull. -- Caitlin Rose
Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media. -- Elliott Abrams
Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family. -- Caitlin Doughty
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives. -- Adam Hochschild
The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. -- Tony Robbins
Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries. -- Richard Brookhiser
Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live. -- Annie Laurie Gaylor
I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective -- Lev Yilmaz
Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease. -- Jack Levin
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing. -- Jack Paar
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men. -- Charles de Gaulle
In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state. -- George Mikes
The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray. -- Tony Robbins
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries. -- Everett Dirksen
The harbour of influence is richer in the cemeteries where people are buried with their music on their tongues unsung. Don't leave your potentials untouched! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries. -- Saul Bellow
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead. -- Paul Eldridge
I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead! -- Jacqueline Winspear

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