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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me. -- Steve Jobs
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking. -- Elsa Maxwell
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. -- Babe Ruth
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. -- Colonel Sanders
Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. -- William J. Clinton
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. -- Harold Wilson
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. -- Malcolm X
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. -- Pope John Paul II
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. -- Tony Robbins
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. -- Steve Jobs
Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. -- Buzz Aldrin
I should never have been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license. -- John Wayne Gacy
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men. -- Charles de Gaulle
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in. -- Arthur Brisbane
The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there. -- Hugh Hefner
I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You. -- Eva Gabor
No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it. -- Sophie Hannah
Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery. -- Satish Kumar
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
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. -- Lewis H. Lapham
There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.' -- Hugo Wolf
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance. -- George Stephen
Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the white markers of places like Arlington National Cemetery. And may God keep us ever grateful. -- George W. Bush
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch Pet Cemetery as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldnt sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again. -- Jessica Stroup
I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again. -- Jessica Stroup
I like to go to the movies at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery. They do this thing in The Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood where everybody sits out on the grass and they project movies and it's very romantic and very old-school Hollywood, so I love that. -- Bonnie McKee
... I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it... -- Dimebag Darrell
As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally. -- Ann Coulter
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? -- J. D. Salinger
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. -- Miguel de Unamuno
You look like a talent scout for a cemetery. -- Henny Youngman
Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard. -- Myles Munroe
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. -- Charles Baudelaire
Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens. -- Rita Mae Brown
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. -- Muhammad Iqbal
I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. -- Red Adair
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. -- E. O. Wilson
In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery. -- Tom DeLay
Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire. -- Roma Downey
I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family. -- George Jones
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. -- Alastair Campbell
A crazy man finishes in the cemetery. -- Juan Manuel Fangio
The cemetery is full of indispensable people. -- Winston Churchill
The cemetery is filled with indispensable men. -- Charles de Gaulle
I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. -- Charles Baudelaire
Snow has turned the world into a cemetery. -- Roberto Juarroz
No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop -- Jose Marti
You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian -- Robin Williams
Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery. -- Tupac Shakur
Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents. -- Judy Sheindlin
The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery. -- Beverly Sills
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. -- Aristide Briand
I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery. -- Barbara Hutton
The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery. -- Evan Esar
It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum. -- Woodrow Wilson
It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The cemetery is full of people who thought they could change themselves tomorrow. -- Boonaa Mohammed
Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved. -- Romain Rolland
While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. -- Miguel de Unamuno
All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying. -- Ed Furgol
I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse. -- Charles Baudelaire
I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them. -- Charles Barkley
If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery. -- Adolph Rupp
Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone. -- Franco Nero
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray. -- Rene Leriche
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. -- Emile Zola
The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery. -- Gottfried Leibniz
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. -- Tim McCarver
I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery. -- Yehuda Amichai
Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery? -- Daniel Handler
I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery. -- Simon Wiesenthal
Go to a cemetery for the scenery. After you die, go back to the cemetery to become one with nature. -- Jarod Kintz
Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that. -- F. Murray Abraham
We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery. -- Joseph Stalin
Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery. -- Andrea Gibson
I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go. -- Gena Showalter
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. -- Ambrose Bierce
A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again. -- Francois Mauriac
I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes. -- Charles Durning
in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery. -- Sheila Ballantyne
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. -- Audrey Niffenegger
Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening. -- William J. Clinton
I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery? -- David Rubenstein
I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right? -- Steve Jobs
Snow has turned the world into a cemetery. But the world already was a cemetery and the snow has only come to announce it. -- Roberto Juarroz
My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that. -- Carol Plum-Ucci
Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening -- Mark Yudof
The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life. -- Jessica Sorensen
So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that. -- Ross Perot
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20. -- Bo Jackson
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery. -- Remy de Gourmont
It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive. -- John Scalzi
A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them. -- Hamdi Ulukaya
Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery. -- Zhang Xin
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers. -- George Jean Nathan
The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ... -- Vicki Baum
The most we've been able to do is create charms that half-work and occasionally write summoning symbols to commune with the dead.""You couldn't just go to a cemetery?" I asked." -- August Westman
The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter. -- Elie Wiesel
If you insist on digging for the truth, you can start at the cemetery. But not the one on the wealthy side of town, because I already dug up everything of value. -- Jarod Kintz
I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary; Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary, You might have to pull your AK, send one to the cemetery. -- Killer Mike
As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown! -- Dwight L. Moody
One thing I learned is that it's never OK to walk through a cemetery dressed as a mummy - even if that was a shortcut on the way to the costume party. -- Demetri Martin
[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are. -- Dorothy Parker
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery. -- Andre Malraux
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism. -- Rosa Luxemburg

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