Bury Quotes
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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.
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More Bury Quotes
They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.
thomas fuller— The Holy State and the Profane State, Of Marriage (1642)
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.
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)
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
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
It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury.
— 2001E-mail sent on11 Sep, after hijacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center in New York.
Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope, and nod on the parterre, Deep harvests bury all his pride has planned, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land.
Alexander Pope— 1731Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Burlington', l.173-6.
But still the great have kindness in reserve, He helped to bury whom he helped to starve.
Alexander Pope— 1735 Of a patron.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.247-8.
Did therewith bury in oblivion.
william browne— Britannia’s Pastorals (1613), Book ii. Song 2.
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
"Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."
Arundhati Roy— From a speech entitled Come September
A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
billy wilder— As quoted in Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973) by Warren Susman, p. 180
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".
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".
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.
It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of the ruler.
richard weaver— Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (Chicago: 1948), p. 56
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life.
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.
The dismall'st day is this that e'er I saw, To be dishonour'd by my sons in Rome! Well, bury him, and bury me next.
— Titus Andronicus, scene i
If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.
Giannina Braschi— Giannina Braschi in Yo-Yo Boing! (B)
We, the soldiers who have returned from battles stained with blood; we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes; we who have attended their funerals and cannot look in the eyes of their parents; we who have come from a land where parents bury their children; we who have fought against you, the Palestinians-we say to you today, in a loud and a clear voice: enough of blood and tears. Enough.
— Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister. Speech at the White House, September 13 1993, after signing the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles.[ ]
Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.
bob marley— Wake Up and Live from "B is For Bob"
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)
