Top 100 Quotes About Burying
#1. The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.
Katherine Mansfield
#2. Margaretha suddenly plastered herself against his chest, burying her face in his shoulder and clinging to him with one hand, while she held the torch in her other hand away from them. He wrapped his arm around her, to protect her.
Melanie Dickerson
#3. I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
Ed Begley Jr.
#4. to the right collapsed, further burying the former
James Rollins
#5. As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books
the
one true love of my life when growing up.
Jane Green
#6. Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
Herbert Read
#7. The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!
John Brunner
#8. We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, and burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#9. Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear ...
Meg Cabot
#10. Copp's Hill Burying Ground, which could not be many blocks away from this very house, was a favourite scene.
H.P. Lovecraft
#11. Fuck, Mia," he says, clenching my hair and burying his face into its scent. "I want to damage you. I want to ruin you for anyone else.
Nina G. Jones
#12. Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#13. I hug my knees, burying my face in my arms.
This room feels very large, and I feel very small.
Beth Revis
#14. He slid his hands under her butt and she could feel him pressing against her, hot and hard and sleek. And then he thrust inside, deep, fast, burying himself inside her, breaking past whatever trace of innocence she still had remaining.
Anne Stuart
#15. If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#16. Certain creatures laid eggs that were able to endure the dry season. Others survived by burying themselves in mud, simulating death, waiting for the return of rain.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#17. The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Betty Friedan
#18. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future
Tahereh Mafi
#19. You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.
Mike Pence
#20. We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on.
Mark Lawrence
#21. A mother burying her child is the only thing that could make one truly long for death - if only for the sliver of hope that she might glimpse her child again.
Emma Chase
#22. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?
Lisa Belkin
#23. It's a big enough job just burying the dead, without trying to draw a moral from each death
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. You know what's worse than burying your own child? Not burying your own child.
John Hennessy
#25. Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.
Franz Grillparzer
#26. The road whinnies and rears up. The sky gallops.
You are permanent within me in this chaos.
Somewhere deep in my mind you shine forever, without
moving, silent, like the angel awed by death,
or like the insect burying itself
in the rotted heart of a tree.
Miklos Radnoti
#27. Nothing offers better public relations fodder than something you can rescue and love intensively for a month and then be filmed burying at a lavish funeral.
Chuck Palahniuk
#28. My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.
Seann William Scott
#29. Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down
Bob Dylan
#30. Every day is important; each day make us. Even the nothing ones especially those, given how they slit up, slowly burying other, seemingly more momentous, moments beneath their weight. I see that now.
Adrian Barnes
#31. I wanted to make sure you were fine ... and that he was okay, too. You didn't, like, stab the boy, did you? I mean, I totally disapprove of murdering hotties, but if you need help burying the body, you know I'll bring the shovel.
Kody Keplinger
#32. ... resentment buried is not gone. It is like burying a seed: for a season it may stay hidden in the dark, but in the end, it will always grow.
Beth Underdown
#33. If our perfect Lord is gracious enough to take our worst, and ugliest, our most boring, our least successful, and forgive them, burying them in the depths of the sea, then it's high time we give each other a break.
Charles R. Swindoll
#34. I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.
Guy Pearce
#35. There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.
Polly Horvath
#36. Tessa rolled over, burying her face in her pillow. For so many years she had wondered what her first kiss would be like-if he would be handsome, if he would love her, if he would be kind. She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water and blood.
Cassandra Clare
#38. Parents give birth to a dude. Dude grows up, becomes a vampire. Parents assign me to kill him by burying him in his dreams. Happens to me all the time.
Cameron Jace
#39. Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.
Jason F. Wright
#40. I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix ... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.
Tommy Douglas
#41. going, but that was OK. Good, honest hard work: burying the dead. Took an hour to dig a hole
Sharon Jones
#42. Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.
Warren Farrell
#43. Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.
Cynthia Ozick
#44. Burying his face in Emma's neck, Noah's cries quieted as Emma hummed to him. Their food arrived then.
Wanna come to Daddy, Little Man, so Mama can eat?
Katie Ashley
#45. IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#46. It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her ...
Alice McDermott
#47. When you're up on that stage and you're working the audience, all I can think about is slamming you against the wall and burying myself in you over and over, so deep they'll never get us apart.
Christine Feehan
#48. Burying memories, treasured or detested, is unhealthy,
Kristen Ashley
#49. A person will walk through a hundred doors to carry out the whims of the dead, not realizing he is burying himself away from the others.
Michael Ondaatje
#50. Blasted grave marker. There sure are a bloody lot of them. They've got some nerve burying all these dead people here.
Tess Oliver
#51. No better way to avoid making a decision than burying yourself in a big fat book. (p. 105).
Elizabeth Bard
#52. Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind ... "Trust me," Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.
Erin Morgenstern
#53. I love fucking you, he whispered, still moving inside me, slow and delicious, burying himself with every stroke.
Alessandra Torre
#54. In some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.
Kelley Armstrong
#55. There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.
Mitch Albom
#56. I'll not have you bleeding to death on me. That would be just like you, to die and leave me the work of burying you. You have no consideration.
Robert Jordan
#57. What you try to bury just ends up burying you.
Jane Wagner
#58. Idiots always keep burying the truths not knowing that even the stomachs of the graves cannot digest the truths and throw up!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. There is no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
Sydney Harris
#60. Nobody, but nobody, is going to get our guns, even if it means burying most of them in the ground and taking a final stand with our legs spread wide and our favorite firing power nestled in our arms.
Deb Baker
#62. He sighs and bows his head, burying his face in his hands. I touch his hair. His ears. Bear may be my rock, but Dom is the force that moves me.
T.J. Klune
#63. She refused to let him bury his guilt in her. She would not be a burying place for any man again.
Brit Bennett
#64. You twitch as the darkness moves in and out of you. It crawls up your spine and nestles in your brain like an evil thought from out of nowhere, burying itself in your psyche like a starving leech looking for a vein.
Stephen Biro
#65. Why are they burying daddy? Mummy? Mummy! Make 'em stop! Daddy can't go to work like this!
Hiromu Arakawa
#66. It was time to chuck this life, with its Jo-Jos and Rodneys, its bloody burning children and walking-dead parents, just kick dirt over the whole show, like a cat burying its shit.
Richard Price
#67. (To the haters) You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.
Stefan Molyneux
#68. Told me that when you bury emotions like that, you're only pissing them off ... making them stronger, because you're burying them alive. They don't like that, and one day they'll make sure that you don't like it either.
Rob Thurman
#69. Each dog marks a section of our lives, and in the end, we feed them to the dark, burying them there while we carry on.
Toby Barlow
#70. Did you really mean what you said?" she asked softly. "If God Himself were waiting at Gloucester, you would not relinquish me?" He did not meet her gaze, but the muscles in his arms bunched beneath her hands as he pulled her close again. "I meant it, he whispered, burying his lips in her hair.
Marsha Canham
#71. He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.
Robert South
#72. One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?
Orson Scott Card
#73. But Cora said all people bury what it is they fear
so it cannot hurt them. So it is kept from them, locked up in the earth or in the sea.
Does it work? I asked her. Burying a feared thing?
She pursed her lips. Maybe. If it done justly, and with an honest, hopeful heart ...
Susan Fletcher
#74. I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.
David Blaine
#75. you know what is and what is not right. All men do, though they may spend their years trying to bury that knowing, burying it beneath words, hatreds, lusts, sorrow, or any of the other bricks from which they build their lives.
Mark Lawrence
#76. Erland turned his eyes to the window and the figure that stood before it with arms crossed, staring into the anamorphic slurry of colors caught together in the burying of the sun as night fell like a jar of blue-black paint.
Luke Taylor
#77. No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.
Croesus
#78. He bent down burying his face in my neck. I reached back to grab onto the iron bars behind me to hold myself up. My jacket slipped off my shoulders. I was pretty sure I was on fire and at that moment I would have sworn that bursting into flame was a glorious way to go.
Myra McEntire
#79. Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.
Harold Bloom
#80. Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.
T.D. Jakes
#81. They have scarcely finished burying the dead from the last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one.
George R R Martin
#82. I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.
Alan Arkin
#83. Wally, stop playing with your beans."
Mom is participating in a nightly ritual that never changes. Tonight, The Turd's picking up lima beans, sniffing each one, and burying it in his mashed potatoes.
"I'm not playing with them," he says, matter-of-factly. "I'm checking them for fleas.
Huston Piner
#84. For years I'd been trying to forget ... , locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey ... had shattered that, bringing it all back - but now that I'd faced it, I found to my surprise that the fear had been worse than the reality.
Benedict Jacka
#85. As a child he was fond of hanging cats and then burying them with ceremony.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#86. One thing I'd learned from all the burying I'd attended was that sometimes it's hard to pay attention. Burying someone you know will set your mind down some distant trail, as the one you're really on is too painful to view.
at the burial of Ernest, Sarah's brother
p177
Nancy E. Turner
#87. The straining of dreams against the fabric of reality. Growing up meant burying possibilities, one after another.
Anthony Doerr
#88. There was something warming, Ronan thought, about all of them burying a body on his behalf.
Maggie Stiefvater
#89. His lips trailed the edge of her chin. One shoulder bumped up, and he eased it down, burying his lips in the soft hollow of her neck. She smelled like citrus and his tongue flicked out. Tasted like it too. "Never pay much mind to rules."
"In the mood to break some, are you?
Barbara Lohr
#90. Look here, do you know the whole North End once had a set of tunnels that kept certain people in touch with each other's houses, and the burying ground, and the sea?
H.P. Lovecraft
#91. A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
Henry Ward Beecher
#92. She then threw herself into her work for the City of Grand Junction in the northwest corner of Colorado, burying herself in
Steve Jackson
#93. Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!
Widad Akrawi
#94. Every patient tends to bury the most important story inside some other story, just the way new writers often 'bury the lede.' 'Burying the lede' is an old journalism term for when you only find out the real point about halfway into the article, but it also applies to therapy.
Gina Barreca
#95. A steady flow of complaints about the proliferation of books reverberated into the late 1600s. Intellectuals warned that people would stop talking to each other, burying themselves in books, polluting their minds with useless, fatuous ideas.
Daniel J. Levitin
#96. Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.
Evan Esar
#97. The sky was a rich cloudless blue, the air still and dry, the maple trees glowing with glorious reds and oranges and yellows, and everywhere on Gardam Street squirrels bustled about with self-importance, burying their nuts in the most unlikely places.
Jeanne Birdsall
#98. The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
Edward Bach
#99. This is your grave."
"Grave? You've got to be kidding. I'm still alive."
"Burying dead people isn't as much fun," Saeki said, feeling this was extremely obvious.
Otsuichi
#100. We keep on burying our dead/
We keep on planting their bones in the ground/
But they won't grow/
The sun doesn't help/
The rain doesn't help.
Regina Spektor
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