Bury Quotes
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They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.
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More Bury Quotes
But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
william bradford— Of Plymouth Plantation, chapter 12 (1620-1647)
Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
jesus christ— The Gospel of Matthew 8:22 (KJV), said to one of his disciples.
We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass; That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
alexander smith— Alexander Smith, City Poems, A Boy's Poem, Part III.
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
Bible (Old Testament)— Kings 9:35.
But Jesussaid untohim,Followme; and letthe dead bury their dead.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 8:22.
In order to protect the physical hygiene and mental health of the living, we usually bury the dead.
josé saramago— p. 181 (All the Names (1997))
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
Émile zola— As quoted in Dreyfus : His Life and Letters? (1937) edited by Pierre Dreyfus, p. 175
The recruit must be carefully and sedulously taught when meeting the enemy, even at a trot or canter, to use no force whatever, otherwise his sword will bury itself to the hilt, and the swordsman will either be dragged from his horse, or will be compelled to drop his weapon if he can.
— Richard Francis Burton, in A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry (1876)
Don’t mess with the needle or a spoon Or any trip to the moon It’ll take you away Lord, their gonna bury you boy Don’t mess with the needle Now I know, I know, I know...
— Ronnie Van Zant, "The Needle and the Spoon", as performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.
— Variant translation: In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
— Book 1, Ch. 87
If I were a Mexican, I would tell you,'Have you not enough room in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and hospitable graves.'
— 1846 Speech to the Senate against the American-Mexican War,11 Feb.
Whether you like it not, history is on our side.We will bury you.
— 1956 Remark to Western diplomats at the Kremlin,18 Nov. Khrushchev later claimed that he had meant 'We will overtake you [economically]', rather than this more sinister version.
Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then indeed the whole of National Socialism has been in vain. To the contrary, in my opinion one should bury bronze plates on which it is recorded that we have had the courage to carry out this great and so necessary work.
odilo globocnik— To Kurt Gerstein, 17 August 1942. Quoted in "God, Greed, and Genocide: The Holocaust through the Centuries" - Page 101 - by Arthur Grenke - 2005
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
ernest hemingway— A Farewell to Arms, Ch. 27 (1929)
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in. (We will bury you.)
nikita khrushchev— Remark to western ambassadors during a diplomatic reception in Moscow (18 November 1956)
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright— Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times Magazine (4 October 1953); sometimes paraphrased as "A doctor" in place of "The physician".
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
— Nikita Khrushchev, remark at a Polish embassy reception following the signing of a Moscow-Warsaw joint declaration in Moscow, November 18, 1956.—The Washington Post, November 19, 1956, p. 1. Khrushchev later explained what he had meant in response to a question at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., September 16, 1959: "The expression I used was distorted, and on purpose, because what was meant was not the physical burial of any people but the question of the historical force of development. It is well known that at the present time no one social or economic system is dominant throughout the world, but that there are different systems, social systems in different countries. And those systems change. At one time the most widespread system of society in the world was feudalism. Then capitalism took its place…. We believe that Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin gave scientific proof of the fact that the system, the social system of socialism, would take the place of capitalism … that is why I said that looking at the matter from the historical point of view, socialism, communism, would take the place of capitalism and capitalism thereby would be, so to speak, buried."—Transcript of Khrushchev's address and subsequent question-and-answer session (simultaneous translation), The New York Times, September 17, 1959, p. 18, col. 8.
Nietzsche … combines, in effect, Christ’s harsh sayings: ‘let the dead bury their dead’ and ‘narrow is the way which leadeth unto life’.
john carroll— p. 98 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))
If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.
— Giannina Braschi, (Yo-Yo Boing!) p 79.
When I die bury me in smoke
— Phillip Anselmo - DOWN (first album).
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
— Quoted by Herodotus in The Histories, Book I
When time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell, Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.
— Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Wanderer, Book IV. Two out of the Crowd, Stanza 17.
If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn."
— Ronald Reagan, "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation", Human Life Review, Spring 1984.
I want to bury him. Properly, without magic.
— Who: Harry Potter
— Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
william hazlitt— "On The Conduct of Life" (1822), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
"bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down."
diogenes laërtius— Diogenes, 6.
Now when the number of my years Is all fulfilled and I From sedentary life Shall rouse me up to die, bury me low and let me lie Under the wide and starry sky. Joying to live, I joyed to die, bury me low and let me lie.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, poem written in 1879; probably original of his Requiem; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 235.
