Quotes with cemetery

  • 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.

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  • Steve Jobs 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
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Malcolm X Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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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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  • Henry Ward Beecher Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Harold Wilson He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
    Harold Wilson
    British Labour politician (1916 - 1995)
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  • Harry S. Truman I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ''Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.'' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham 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
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Babe Ruth If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bill Bryson My father liked Iowa. He lived his whole life in the state, and is even now working his way through eternity there, in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Remy de Gourmont 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
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • 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
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • John Paul II The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Brisbane The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in.
    Arthur Brisbane
    American newspaper editor (1864 - 1936)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Marguerite Yourcenar 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 forgetfulness.
    Marguerite Yourcenar
    French writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Col. Harland Sanders There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
    Col. Harland Sanders
    American businessman, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) (1890 - 1980)
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