Cemetery Quotations

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

The possibility that he may not be recovered is there. We certainly hate that, but we've done everything we can to recover everyone from the cemetery as well as our storm victims.

When we drove up to the cemetery that night, it was just like he had been killed all over again.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.

We're here forever. We already bought our cemetery plot.

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

We've never had any notice from the cemetery association when they are doing anything.

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

Right across the road from us is a cemetery. Grant Wood sat in that cemetery and painted one of his famous valley paintings.

I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out in force in a display of respect as I had here today. There were state highway department workers at every intersection on the way to the cemetery and about 40 to 50 state trucks on hand. The Illinois Department of Transportation takes care of its own. It was very impressive.

I finished St. Patrick's Cemetery last night. It took three hours.

I think at some point and time all cemetery districts are going to have a problem, because they all have a finite amount of land. All of them are fighting for the almighty dollar because they are just barely making it. They are either going to have to buy land or beg for it, because they'll have nowhere to bury people. Somebody - and I suspect it will be the state legislature - will have to address the issue.

Our national cemeteries are in fact national shrines -- places to memorialize the service of our veterans, our way of life, keeping us free. We intend fully to maintain this cemetery as a national shrine.

I was here when the cemetery was dedicated last fall. We had a good turnout then and a good turnout now. I'm so impressed with the cemetery that I'm going to pick out a plot for myself.

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

We are aware that we cannot complete the purchase of the cemetery at this time. However, making an offer and, if necessary, initiating condemnation proceedings are allowed by both court orders.

We're working to map out the graves and get information about the cemetery online.

We could move it (to another part of the property), but what's the point because you're going to be driving across what may be a cemetery anyway.

Veterans are veterans. The state-operated cemetery would be available to any veteran, regardless of the state they're from.

Every cemetery district has an endowment fund and they can only spend the interest on that money. They can't touch the principle. I recommend they do that. Otherwise, even if they were good with the money, the money could erode.

At the Uncle Sam grave site, we received a generous donation from Robert Huff. We received a new flagpole which he gave to the cemetery in memory of his grandson.

These were probably people whose family never picked up the ashes. It's not unusual for a cemetery to get these kinds of remains. The problem is: You're supposed to be burying them.

Property is cut into littler and littler pieces, until all that's left is a cemetery and parking lot. We're in a race to document the old cemeteries before they disappear.

People specifically asked the cemetery board about upright markers. They chose to set up the estate and perimeter lots so that (graves) can look good, but are easily maintained by the city.

After his death, we moved back to New Orleans. We needed healing, and we didn't think we were going to be able to do that in Joplin. And, passing Ozark Memorial Cemetery every day that was going to be real hard.

This is a time when people can bring their ideas about anything from remodeling or buying a cemetery headstone and talk directly to someone who can help them through the process.

This is the first such occurrence that's ever happened at Memorial Park Cemetery to my knowledge. This is a very rare occurrence. It's a very tragic end to someone's life. They feel that's the only way out.

They Say Only The Strong Survive But Is That The Truth? Even The Strong Die, Check The Cemetery For Proof.

This part of the cemetery doesn't look as barren as it did.

They're just one more part of the puzzle. No one knew there was a cemetery until the skeletal material was found.

At least your mother and father can visit you, ... I visit my son in a cemetery and talk to a cold block of stone.

It's a segregated cemetery. We need a community cemetery. Sara Sims cemetery is something that happened a long time ago. It's a part of history.

It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardly out this part country, but she went clear to California on a train to see what she could find out. They had services while she was out there, for her sake. They even had a plot in a soldiers' cemetery and had a stone for him there.

It?s a cemetery that will be there for a long time. Fortunately, these remains won?t be disturbed anymore.

It means a lot because when I was a little girl, the Lincoln Cemetery was the only place we could be buried.

It's important so the spouses have someplace close to go without having to go to (the national veterans' cemetery in) San Antonio or one of the other national cemeteries, ... earned their right to be here.

Small towns usually make sure their places of doom disappear. But that's not the case here: In West Warwick, what used to be a tavern is now an ad hoc cemetery -- which is the role taverns play in most small towns, but not as obviously as this.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in.

The cemetery has outlasted many of the families of people who are buried there, who would normally look after the sites. There is a lack of money for simple maintenance, so when structures age, they just drift towards oblivion.

I hope to find anything that might show me where cemetery is located. Something that might look like a grave or a metal stake in the ground, anything that would identify where these people are buried.

I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and the next year my friend's father passed. He went home and drew the whole cemetery with the casket, the seats and all the tombstones with all the names on it. That's when we knew he could draw from memory.

By approving the city of Chicago's O'Hare expansion plan, the FAA has done nothing less than authorize the desecration of St. Johannes Cemetery and promote the careless disregard for the First Amendment and federal religious freedom law.

The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.

The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective

This is a concern. Over the years as the area has been growing, we have had a lot of people call us saying they're concerned because they know there is a family cemetery out there on a piece of land, and people are out there bulldozing because it is being developed.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.