#cemetery

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#cemetery #crow #falcon #him #king

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#cemetery #drum #funeral #graves #heart

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#cemetery #century #cruelty #extended #human

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

— Babe Ruth

#cemetery #either #i #penitentiary

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. ↗

— George Stephen

#cemetery #dance #dependent #despite #fact

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#brothers #buried #cemetery #i #military

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#cemetery #gallery #i #living #metropolitan

I visited my old haunt, but somehow without all my old friends there with me, the cemetery just wasn’t the same. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#friendship #haunt #humor #change

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#death #death