Quotes About Churchyards

#1. I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a Romantic facination with structural decay; wealthy gentry had custom-built ruins erected on their estates, their own little Country Churchyards to elegize in

Paul Collins

#2. Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world; now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.

William Shakespeare

#3. He liked churchyards. The graves themselves, were, of course, important, being the final resting places for the earthly remains of people-real people just like himself. They were valuable tributes from loving relatives, who'd cared about those people in life; the gravestones were historical records.

Charmian Hussey

#4. I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

Robin Gibb

#5. My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.

Leigh Newman

#6. added because it was the polite thing to do. "I'm going home," Cricket insisted as if Anna had threatened to drag her bodily back into the

Nevada Barr

#7. Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.

Robert Herrick

#8. If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.

Jamaica Kincaid

#9. We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Ira Glass

#10. The boy is of an outspoken disposition, and had made an opprobrious remark respecting my personal appearance."
"What did he say about your appearance?"
"I have forgotten, sir," said Jeeves, with a touch of austerity. "But it was opprobrious.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.

Audrey Hepburn

#12. The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

Jean Baudrillard

#13. I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

Dayo Okeniyi

#14. A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.

Randy Alcorn

#15. I do feel like I'm a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

Amy Smart

#16. Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

Alexander Pope

#17. Racial injustice is a dangerous relic of the darkest days of history.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#18. This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Rebecca Goldstein