Top 151 Graveyard Quotes & Sayings

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

I don't want to stay in the graveyard era of music.

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

As much as I love Neil Lane, I don't want to have a ring graveyard.

The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

They call Florida the wrestling graveyard because it's where we all end up. The weather is easier on us here.

My first kiss was actually in a graveyard.

I'd drop whatever I was doing to show up to do the graveyard shift of 'America's Shopping Place.'

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.

A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

I used to work the graveyard shift.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals.

On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.

We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

every heart has its graveyard.

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.

New Guinea was sort of a graveyard for planes.

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Stephen King's 'Mr. Mercedes' is not a conventional horror novel. No ghosts, no vampires, no prune-faced escapees of the graveyard.