One Foot From The Grave Quotes

#1. Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they seem small in the moment, have a big effect.

Tom Rath

#2. Hey hey hey
I was born a rebel
Down in Dixie on a Sunday morning
Yeah, with one foot in the grave
And one foot on the pedal
I was born a rebel, born a rebel

Tom Petty

#3. Why did the undertaker sink into a deep depression?
Because he was already one foot in the grave

Stephan Attia

#4. It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

Alexei Sayle

#5. Sentimentality towards the undeserving is as dangerous as agreeing to putting one foot in the grave.

K.A. Hosein

#6. [The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

Carlos Fuentes

#7. None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

Archibald Alexander

#8. Yeah, isn't it? Life's a bitch and then one stabs you.

Jeaniene Frost

#9. The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.

Jeremy Grantham

#10. A beautiful life is a life that is content and satisfied with material possessions, and has an abundance of hope, love, laughter, kindness, and compassion.

Debasish Mridha

#11. I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. Do you know what you've done?" I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me
an inquiring look. "You've gotten on my last nerve."
The table went crashing into her before she could blink, and then my fist found a home in
her perfectly arranged hair.

Jeaniene Frost

#13. The merriment of everything from foot-high weeds to hundred-foot oaks, rustling in the wind - grave chuckling of maples and alders, titters from groves of sapling sassafras, silly giggling in the raspberry bushes, a huge belly laugh from the oldest hollow ash tree before the freeway interchange.

Diane Duane

#14. KARACHI: The Karachi traffic police will be distributing free helmets for women as part of their 'Friends of Traffic' campaign, which hits the roads on June 8.

Anonymous

#15. Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

Alexander Pope

#16. I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in.
"He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.

Melina Marchetta

#17. My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

Mark Ruffalo

#18. Place thy foot upon thy slave,
Oh thou, half of hell, half of dreams;
Among the shadows, dark and grave,
Thy extended body softly gleams.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#19. When somebody mangles one of my jokes, that bothers me more than somebody saying that I'm the worst comedian ever.

Hannibal Buress

#20. You either trust me or you don't. I've never let you down, and I won't walk away unless you make me. Period. Now, unless you have a real emergency, I'd like to get back to my vacation. And my corpse, thanks.

Jeaniene Frost

#21. Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.

Eugene O'Neill

#22. It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.

Haruki Murakami

#23. But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.

John Dryden

#24. We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

John Pearson

#25. What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.'
'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

George Eliot

#26. This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

James Thurber

#27. Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

Charles Caleb Colton

#28. An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Plutarch

#29. Every day, I take steps to resolve all my karmic ties, live with intention, smile and laugh often, express my love, and act on what brings me fulfillment. Why wait until we have one foot in the grave to suddenly become spiritual, forgiving, and at peace with the world?

Alaric Hutchinson

#30. I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.

Jack Nicholson

#31. He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as if he were not a presence but an absence, a hole cut out of the landscape.

Amanda DeWees

#32. There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

Glenn Tipton

#33. How does MINDEF intend to reduce uncertainties, enhance understanding, and improve coordination in the region and beyond through defence diplomacy apart from conferences and meetings?

Low Thia Khiang

#34. He gave the body a final kick and then turned to face me.
"You and I need to talk, Kitten."
"Now?" I asked in disbelief, gesturing to the dead vampire near his feet.
"It's not like he's going anywhere, so yeah. Now.

Jeaniene Frost

#35. Shit. I hated her already, and we hadn't even met.

Jeaniene Frost

#36. You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I
called her that! My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine!

Jeaniene Frost

#37. Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back.

Peter R. Pouncey

#38. There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Ingmar Bergman

#39. When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

Leo Tolstoy

#40. One thing I hear from fans is, 'My Dad's got one foot in the grave, and he wants to see the Pirates win ' I've heard that more than anything. That's our goal.

Clint Hurdle

#41. People always covet what they themselves do not possess.

Walter Moers

#42. Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Martin Heidegger

#43. There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

Liya Kebede