grave Quotes and Quotations
Quote Authors: grave
These are all authors with the name grave.
- Mike Gravel
- Michael Graves
- Morris Graves
- Robert Graves
- Robert James Graves
- Lawrence Hargrave
- Story Musgrave
- Lynn Redgrave
- Vanessa Redgrave
grave Quotes and Quotations
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. Lascelles Abercrombie | top
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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. Janos Arany | top
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus | top
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards. Samuel Beckett | top
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. Henry Ward Beecher | top
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. Louis D. Brandeis | top
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Thomas Browne | top
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard. Alexander Cockburn | top
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Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. Samuel Dash | top
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We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely. Georges Duhamel | top
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We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter. Robert Duvall | top
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. Benjamin Franklin | top
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Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. Solomon Ibn Gabirol | top
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If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed. Mark Haddon | top
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I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems. Harri Holkeri | top
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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. John James Ingalls | top
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! Walter Savage Landor | top
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Douglas MacArthur | top
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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 | top
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They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green. Conor Oberst | top
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The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get. Leo Ornstein | top
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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. Pericles | top
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Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave. Sextus Propertius | top
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. Wallis Simpson | top
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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 | top
