#grave

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#away #father #grave #hand #him

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens. ↗

— Janos Kadar

#burdens #cast #during #grave #great

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave. ↗

— Ralph Kiner

#casey #grave #his #spinning #today

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. ↗

— Neil Kinnock

#fills #fine #graveyards #loyalty #political

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people. ↗

— John Thorn

#before #else #finally #go #grave

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#block #couple #every #grave #i

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#building #cannot #cinema #european #fence

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history. ↗

— Jack Wild

#go #grave #guess #history #i

THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Printer like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding lies here, food for worms; Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will (as he believed) appear once more, in a new, and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended By The AUTHOR ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#headstone #beauty

Rosehill was shady and beautiful, the most serene place I could imagine. It had been closed to the public for years, and sometimes as I wandered alone - and often lonely - through the lush fern beds and long curtains of silvery moss, I pretended the crumbling angels were wood nymphs and fairies and I their ruler, queen of my own graveyard kingdom. ↗

— Amanda Stevens

#ghosts #graveyards #paranormal-fiction #paranormal-suspense #the-restorer