Quotes with buried

  • The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
  • Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall

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  • Milan Kundera Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Lord Chesterfield All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
    Letters (1892)
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Gloria Steinem But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
    Revolution from Within (2012) 98
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Hidden within every astronomical investigation, sometimes so deeply buried that the researcher himself is unaware of its presence, lies a kernel of awe.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Virginia Woolf 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
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Italo Calvino 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
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Salman Rushdie Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Kin Hubbard Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Jean Genet Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Sri Anandamayi Ma Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
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  • Brendan Behan So many belonging to me lay buried in Kilbarrack, the healthiest graveyard in Ireland, they said, because it was so near the sea.
    Borstal Boy pt. 3 (1958)
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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