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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. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay. (Quote by - Matthew Simpson)

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population. (Quote by - Jan Egeland)

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

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. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)

I literally want to work until I'm in the grave. (Quote by - Kadee Strickland)

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive. (Quote by - Wim Wenders)

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. (Quote by - Muhammad Iqbal)

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directe It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day. (Quote by - Stephen Fry)

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living. (Quote by - Philip Ii)

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today (Quote by - Joyce Chapman)

Mr Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General. (Quote by - Daniel Inouye)

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. (Quote by - Margaret Cavendish)

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave. (Quote by - Frank Richard Stockton)

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

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. (Quote by - Harri Holkeri)

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. (Quote by - Leo Ornstein)

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc. (Quote by - Roman Jakobson)

There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. (Quote by - zeretia)

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets. (Quote by - Dianne Feinstein)

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