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The beautiful uncut hair of graves. -- Walt Whitman
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener. -- Jared Harris
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. -- Gail Devers
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? -- George Bernard Shaw
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. -- Tecumseh
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
Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place. -- Theodor Herzl
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. -- Ayn Rand
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. -- Carter G. Woodson
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith
I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. -- Dave Matthews
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers. -- Max Beckmann
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun. -- George Catlin
I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease, and I tell people, if I had my whole life to live over, I would have it, because it has really made me into the person that I am. -- Gail Devers
Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story. -- Heinrich Heine
Graves: Itâ??s going to snow. Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning. Graves: Hey, no problem. First oneâ??s free. -- Lilith Saintcrow
James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too? -- Khaled Hosseini
Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book. -- Pat Barker
Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir "Goodbye to All That," and a civilian memoir "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain . -- George Packer
Josh Graves laid down the dobro on that song [The White Trash Song] and he was hot. We went on the road together and we'd get drunker'n hell every night! I haven't had a drink since November, 1979. And I like it. -- Steve Young
Don't worry about me," I finally said. "Really. I'm more worried about you." And even more worried about where Graves is. "Are you?" A fey smile lit his face, and I caught my breath. It was a shock to see him look so happy. "Well, then. -- Lilith Saintcrow
It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe." Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves. -- Lilith Saintcrow
A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even. -- Robert Graves
There will be sleeping enough in the grave. -- Benjamin Franklin
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. -- Douglas Horton
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. -- Confucius
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. -- Joseph Hall
In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves. -- James Theodore Bent
Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings. -- Alexander Smith
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking. -- Alexander Smith
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. -- Karl Kraus
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. -- Henry David Thoreau
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. -- Charles Baudelaire
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. -- Khalil Gibran
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
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. -- Joshua Sylvester
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust. -- Tullian Tchividjian
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
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! -- James Connolly
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. -- Quentin Crisp
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! -- Hunter S. Thompson
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. -- Nelson A. Miles
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. -- John Shelton Reed
I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank. -- Graydon Carter
I do feel that there is a little confusion in people's minds between the real me and sitcom Miranda. I am pleased that people identify with the character, but I think they want me to be her and are disappointed that the real Miranda doesn't actually fall into graves or be that rubbish at life. -- Miranda Hart
Pretty girls make graves -- Jack Kerouac
Even cities have their graves! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Build castles, don't dig graves. -- David J. Schwartz
we dig our graves with our teeth. -- Fannie Hurst
Grass grows at last above all graves. -- Julia Caroline Dorr
Only where there are graves are there resurrections. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves -- Randall Munroe
Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace. -- Albert Schweitzer
We are the living graves of murdered beasts. -- George Bernard Shaw
The man who seeks revenge digs two graves. -- Ken Kesey
Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full. -- Idries Shah
How much of love lies buried in dusty graves! -- Francis Alexander Durivage
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves. -- George Sand
When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves. -- Christopher Eccleston
The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice. -- Cream
The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves. -- Erin Morgenstern
Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. -- Sara Shepard
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. -- Khalil Gibran
We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves. -- Al McGuire
If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves. -- Confucius
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act. -- William Shakespeare
I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in. -- Elizabeth Bowen
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Dennis Wise, Vinnie Jones and John Fashanu must be turning in their graves -- Carlton Palmer
The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as. -- Arsene Houssaye
I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie -- Lauren Oliver
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves. -- Jack Kerouac
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. -- Geraldine Brooks
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves. -- Chris Bohjalian
As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth. -- Chauncey Depew
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves. -- Etheridge Knight
Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with? -- John L. Balderston
What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you look at ISIS, General MacArthur, and General Patton, they're spinning in their graves. -- Donald Trump
Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations. -- Patrick Pearse
One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves. -- John Mark Green
Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land! -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring. -- Adah Isaacs Menken
Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living. -- Dave Barry
When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet. -- Ambrose Bierce
Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves! -- Robert Browning
Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties. -- William J. H. Boetcker
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality. -- Wendell Phillips
I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first. -- Harlan Ellison
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves. -- William Cowper
When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. -- Jodi Picoult
Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years. -- James Montgomery
My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly. -- Robert Carlyle
It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers. -- Frederic G. Kenyon
How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality -- Wendell Phillips
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers. -- Kami Garcia
History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music. -- Michael P. Naughton
Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on. -- W. H. Auden
Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive. -- Michal Rovner
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down. -- John Steinbeck
I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt. -- Rick Riordan
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. -- Ambrose Bierce
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus; and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves. -- William Shakespeare
Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes. -- Etheridge Knight
Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love. -- bell hooks
For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves! -- John Greenleaf Whittier
if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates. -- Josephine Lawrence
O wandering graves! O restless sleep!O silence of the sunless day!O still ravine! O stormy deep!Give up your prey! Give up your prey! -- Oscar Wilde
With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead. -- Jonathan Swift
We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole. -- Donald Hall

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