Home Burial Quotes

#1. Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.

Carol Bellamy

#2. When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.

George Carlin

#3. I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.

Warren Buffett

#4. The problem is not that we have so little power. The problem is that we don't use the power that we have.

Danusha V. Goska

#5. I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

Al Gore

#6. Her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. Self-love is about respecting and appreciating every single part of who you are, and being proud to be you.

Miya Yamanouchi

#8. Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.

Peter Hedges

#9. You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

Moliere

#10. The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

Erich Schiffmann

#11. What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.

Sai Baba

#12. So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. African Americans had been compelled to work in Alabama mines prior to the Great Depression. His grandfather, once a coal miner himself, had told him stories of a similar burial field near the family home place south of Birmingham.

Douglas A. Blackmon

#14. Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

Euripides

#15. Thought
It does not take
a math genius
to understand that
when you subtract
a mother
from the equation
what remains
is negative.

Kwame Alexander

#16. Novels
which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments and choices.

William Deresiewicz