#dead

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#end #faithful #generations #glorious #heritage

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. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#buried #dead #fame #flowers #future

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#only #past #smells #sweet #thing

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#dream #dreamer #how #know #you

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#age #aware #because #career #deadline

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#dead #i #never #scalpel #taken

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#dead #exciting #first #go #happening

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center. ↗

— Cyrus Vance

#center #dead #diplomatic #diplomatic relations #finally

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#i #politically #rather #than #would

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#dead #i #know #success #talk