A Quote by Fannie Hurst

we dig our graves with our teeth.

Fannie Hurst

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Dig Graves Our Teeth

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Fannie Hurst
American - Novelist
October 19, 1885 - February 23, 1968

It happens to all of us, I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

Tullian Tchividjian

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

Dave Matthews

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

Tecumseh

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

Dean Koontz

Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

Matthew Arnold

Build castles, don't dig graves.

David J. Schwartz

The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

Allen C. Guelzo

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

Christopher Eccleston

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Douglas Horton

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Confucius

I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.

Alice Waters

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Samuel Beckett

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.