Top 100 Quotes About Buried
#1. History was always buried deep, even when you know where to look. And it was hard to excavate it without damaging it. Brushes and cotton swabs, not chisels and pickaxes. Slow work. You had to like doing it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#2. Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.
Robert Morley
#3. Like the garlic mustard in my garden and the roses on my fence, love has a funny way of blooming after years of being buried.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#4. We all have problems ... everyone does.
The only people that don't have any are buried in cemeteries. Rise above your problems and enjoy your life. Change the way you think and you will.
Timothy Pina
#5. You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.
Roz Inga
#6. Everybody should be buried with somebody else, just about anybody else, whenever feasible.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#7. We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.
Amory Lovins
#8. But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.
Elizabeth Wein
#9. Perhaps one day, you'll become a man and sail the oceans too. Perhaps you'll find buried treasure and discover new lands of your own. The world lays waiting for your adventures too and we can only dream of what they may be.
Maxwell Grantly
#10. A member of the Archery Club tries to say that we are all foreigners and we should give the country back to the Native Americans, but she's buried under disagreement.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#11. There is, probably, not a famous Picture or Statue in all Italy, but could be easily buried under a mountain of printed paper devoted to dissertations on it. I do not, therefore, though an earnest admirer of Painting and Sculpture, expatiate at any length on famous Pictures and Statues.
Charles Dickens
#12. What he was afraid of, he'd come to realize, was not dark spaces or falling from great heights or being buried alive. His greatest fears, in the end, were letting down those he loved and saying the words "I love you" without any hope of hearing them in return.
Abigail Roux
#13. I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.
I. F. Stone
#14. And that feeling, that attachment I'd felt to him was no longer a hook, but an anchor buried deep in my rib cage.
Cora Carmack
#15. Did I tell you how incredible you look tonight?
I shook my head and hugged him, laying my head on his shoulder. He tightened his grip, and buried his face in my neck, making me forget about decisions or bracelets or my separate personalities; I was exactly where I wanted to be.
Jamie McGuire
#16. When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
Florence Welch
#17. The drenched backyard full of runoff, and tiny, slimy, uncertain yard critters who had expected to remain buried in months of hard mud, peeking their heads out into the balmy New Year's air, asking, Wait, what?
Nina Riggs
#18. We cannot suppress our defining humanity and innate spirituality. The quivering pulsation of life force buried within the scarlet corpus of our blood waits like a winged angel adamant to erupt from a cocoon of unholy encapsulation whenever we return to ligature of our primitive essence.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#19. I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead ... Tis well.
George Washington
#20. Words travel, because the word arctic comes from arktos, Greek for bear. Cancer comes from the Greek word for crab, karkinos. Memory, or one of its locations in the brain, the hippocampus, means seahorse. A bestiary is buried in our language.
Rebecca Solnit
#21. The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
Edith Sitwell
#22. Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. - Benjamin Franklin
Bryant McGill
#23. Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned the principle of 'our money, our kids' into the reality of 'his money, her kids.
Mary Blakely
#24. Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self.
Sebastian Faulks
#25. I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
Jon Skovron
#26. Please don't die," she whispered. "I don't think I can bury
you. I already buried everyone else."
"How can I die," Alexander said, his voice breaking, "when you
have poured your immortal blood into me?
Paullina Simons
#27. My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with heavy guns and the town is being swept by shrapnel. I myself am O.K. but the front line is being buried.
Gordon Bennett
#28. The assassin stepped in then, his left hand moving in a high swing that buried its blade in the councilman's neck.
Steven Erikson
#29. My heart occasionally stuttered, out of sync, out of power - almost
as if it recognised death and wanted to give in. I forced it to do the bare essentials, keeping me from a grave. I was in the coffin ready to be buried, but I wasn't a corpse just yet.
Pepper Winters
#30. F you could forget mortality ... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.
Wallace Stegner
#31. Buried deep within each one of us lies a treasure. It is our mission in this lifetime to find this treasure, but its exact location is known only by the dragon that guards it.
Lawren Leo
#32. I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#33. The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world's weather
Frederick Buechner
#34. Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.
It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -
buried under the 50,000 thoughts
the average person thinks every day
Deepak Chopra
#35. I had broken three Saxon shield-walls and buried Hywelbane to her hilt in my country's enemies before I had been elected to Mithras's service, but all Lancelot had ever done was boast and posture.
Bernard Cornwell
#36. People are probably always buried where we're standing.
Kim Culbertson
#37. In the beginning was the dog the real name of Jehovah is Rover. Adam's rib is buried in the garden
John Hegley
#38. The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
Geoffrey Elton
#39. You work and live to meet your daily needs rather than to maximize your potential. You simply exist from day to day, without much passion or enthusiasm for life. Meanwhile, your talents remain untapped, buried somewhere deep inside. This is an awful way to live.
Simon T. Bailey
#40. Since the adventure some of those who worked with me have buried themselves in the shallow grave of public duty.
T.E. Lawrence
#41. When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusing, which can sometimes be good. In any case, you are uncovering a buried word.
E. Lockhart
#44. A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.
Edith Pargeter
#45. If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming flesh living on the earth, dying on the cross for the sins of the world, being buried, and being raised from the dead - yours and mine and everybody else's problems will be solved.
Phil Robertson
#46. So I wrote this novel in order to explore distant memories and buried doubts: What would have become of me if I had spent not just one year in the camps, but two or four? If I had been appointed kapo? Could I have struck a friend? Humiliated an old man? And
Elie Wiesel
#47. The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.
David Joy
#48. I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.
Joan Rivers
#49. What a crazy way to be buried, he thought as he hunted. Get your body burned up and then poured into a box that looked like a library book, like your relatives could check you out and take you home for a couple of weeks. Would there be an overdue penalty if they were late bringing back the dead?
Brian Keene
#50. I know as well as you do that only the individual has the key to change themselves. It's buried deep inside each and every one of us and although someone else can help us to find the key, we're the only ones who can use it.
Lisa Jewell
#51. News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.
Toba Beta
#52. Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#54. But the lie had already buried itself inside of Scarlett, as lies that children are told often do.
Stephanie Garber
#55. I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#56. I'm falling forward with the force of two years of buried grief, the sorrow of ten thousand oceans finally breaking inside me-
I let it. I let my heart break.
Jandy Nelson
#57. I needed to recognize those secrets I was keeping from myself- secrets I had buried long ago. I needed Post Secret just as much as the other people who were mailing me their secrets.
Frank Warren
#58. I don't have a problem with nudity. I never have. I was born naked. I'd like to buried naked. It's a way of life in Australia.
Elle Macpherson
#59. There is nowhere in the world I'd rather be than buried deep within her. All of her. Her body. Her heart. Her soul. She is the good I seek. She is the pure I long to be. She is worth everything I will give up to be with her.
Rebecca Shea
#60. Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.
Phil Knight
#61. But I can't force myself to remember my hidden past or purposefully unravel the mystery of my heart. Secrets are usually buried for a reason.
Siobhan Davis
#62. This is the dilemma, the contradiction we cannot resolve. We do not want to be them. Yet we are fascinated by them, because every detail tugs at a buried memory.
Kelley Armstrong
#63. It will be the same silence, the same as ever, murmurous with muted lamentation, panting and exhaling of impossible sorrow, like distant laughter, and brief spells of hush, as of one buried before his time. Long or short, the same silence. Then I resurrect and begin again.
Samuel Beckett
#64. We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.
Thomas Kinkade
#65. The giant, once well buried, now stirs. When soon he rises, as surely he will, the friendly bonds between us will prove as knots young girls make with the stems of small flowers.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#66. Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#67. My old hidden dreams that I thought buried for all time lie bare and naked to the day, just as the shells and the stones do on the sands
Daphne Du Maurier
#68. What's inside is inside for a reason.
What's hidden is hidden for a reason.
What's buried is buried for a reason.
Charlie Huston
#69. The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he'd done for me and what we'd been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.
Sara Zarr
#70. Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. I must go down to the seas again
to find where I
buried the hatchet with Yesterday.
Janet Frame
#73. The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.
Dylan Thomas
#74. Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me ... of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.
John Wesley
#75. The creator of stars, heaven and earth
surpassed himself when he also created pain. Lips like rubies, delicious-smelling hair, blooming flowers, how many of you are
already buried in earthy soil?
Omar Khayyam
#76. She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.
Sherman Alexie
#77. Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
John Gabriel Stedman
#78. You were the vessel of evil. The Evil is poured out. It is done. It is buried in it's own tomb. You were never made for cruelty and darkness; you were made to hold light
Ursula K. Le Guin
#79. pleasant-enough place, as cemeteries went, and if somebody had told him that he'd be buried there, after a life of, say, a hundred forty years and much more sex and barbecue, he would have been content with the prospect.
John Sandford
#80. From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.
Rachel
#81. What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soulmate, get married, have children and be buried side by side. There is an equal chance that the person you meet will look as if they've already been buried for some time.
Guy Browning
#82. It suddenly seemed he knew me better than anyone in the world. Better than anyone ever would.
He'd seen my deepest need, buried so far I'd hardly been aware of it.
( ... ) they would remember me.
Thanks to Sam, I was Immortal
Jodi Meadows
#83. I promise you, I'm going to spend every one of those forty-eight hours buried balls deep in your tight ass." "Fuck
A.E. Via
#84. I'm going to make you come harder and longer than you ever have before, baby, and I'm going to feel every shudder, every ripple of that orgasm as it rips through you because I am going to be right here holding tight to you, buried deep inside you. And, Nikki, I'm not ever letting go.
J. Kenner
#85. If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.
John Hennessy
#86. The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.
Ousmane Sembene
#87. Do not allow yourself to be buried
In the howling Of what might have been.
Sharon M. Van Sluys
#88. There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm
a sliver of light buried in the darkness.
Norman Ollestad
#89. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said
yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.
Willie Morris
#90. That bookshops will one day disappear altogether and be replaced by mail order, that eventually books themselves would be finally and fully buried by that awful foe, so much cheaper and easier to carry: newspapers.
Matthew Pearl
#91. And no matter how tough he acts, the stress of whatever situation he's in is in there somewhere. Buried deep or right underneath the surface.
Penelope Douglas
#92. She tasted like buried treasure and swing sets and coffee. She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.
Robyn Schneider
#93. Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
Caitlin Doughty
#94. I look out past the corn and the wheat and wonder how many sets of bones are buried, unspoken, keeping their stories to themselves in the dirt. I wonder if they know the sky is bright blue today and the air smells sweet. I wonder if they still listen in.
Andrea Portes
#95. Instar implies something both celestial and ingrown, something heavenly and disastrous, and perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.
Rebecca Solnit
#96. Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
Lady Gregory
#97. We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.
Jose Rodriguez
#98. He sighed. A year since he'd left her the morning after the final battle with her brother. A year since he'd held her in his arms. A year since he'd kissed her. A year since he'd buried his head between her thighs. A year since she'd punched him in the face.
G.A. Aiken
#99. To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.
John Calvin
#100. Would ask what you want carved on your grave. " "I would like it to say 'Why Do You Care Who Is Buried Here?
Edward W. Robertson
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