Top 100 To The Grave Quotes
#1. Seek knowledge from the Cradle to the Grave
Anonymous
#2. The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
Edward Bellamy
#3. I went in for a checkup, and when my doctor had me stand on the scale, even he was surprised. Seeing that number (which I'll take to the grave) was a turning point. I knew I needed to make a change. I cut out white flour and starches and worked with my doctor and a nutritionist to develop a plan.
Adam Richman
#4. All that I want now is to live out my life in ease in a familiar world, to die in my own bed and be followed to the grave by old friends.
J.M. Coetzee
#5. History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a world historical figure is its comedy.
Karl Marx
#6. It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
Edward Hoagland
#7. I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
Tom Stoppard
#8. Men who have seen life and death ... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.
Voltaire
#9. Remember you have just one mother, said Marina. Better not rush her to the grave! Though Marina had grown up with such reminders from her own mother, she could never get the tone quite right herself.
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
#10. As it is with every Life experience,
from the cradle to the grave,
Curiosity, is the culprit,
and always leads the way.
D. O'Brien
#11. Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.
Dennis Kucinich
#12. The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings.
Rudolf Rocker
#13. The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
James Thurber
#15. My shift was over. Thank God! One more closer to the grave.
Ian Truman
#16. For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory ...
Zachary Taylor
#17. Give the man of color an equal opportunity with the white, from the cradle to manhood, and from manhood to the grave, and you would discover the dignified statesman, the man of science, and the philosopher.
Maria W. Stewart
#18. It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
Edward Abbey
#19. Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
Timothy Ferriss
#20. With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.
William Matthews
#21. Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.
Herbert Hoover
#22. Don't go to the grave with your best work still inside of you. Die empty.
Todd Henry
#23. Suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.
Patricia Moyes
#24. Secrets are secrets, but if it comes to choosing life or death, then I'm not taking them to the grave.
C.M. Stunich
#25. Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.
Alice Childress
#26. I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.
Karen Marie Moning
#27. For all the clever jokes that could be made here involving "mind" and "matter" there is one sure and certain variation you can take with you to the grave: "In the grand scheme of things you don't matter very much, and the laws of physics don't mind at all.
Patrick E. McLean
#29. From the cradle to the grave, humans desire a certain someone who will look out for them, notice and value them, soothe their wounds, reassure them in life's difficult places, and hold them in the dark.
Susan M. Johnson
#30. For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.
Annie Jacobsen
#31. Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
Robert Frost
#32. Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
David McCullough
#33. Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.
William Shakespeare
#34. Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.
Shari Arison
#35. Besides, his father and uncles were old, and the old lords were like that; they took their dusty feuds to the grave, forgetting nothing and forgiving less.
George R R Martin
#36. When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#37. The journey to the grave is already begun, the journey to corruption is, always, already, half over.
James Baldwin
#38. I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave,
Khalid Abdul Muhammad
#39. The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave.
Sarah Ferguson
#40. Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.
Benjamin Disraeli
#41. Secrets she'll take to the grave and secrets she's dying to share.
Simone Elkeles
#42. Everyone needs a hobby," he said. "And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.
Stephen King
#43. Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.
Jaggi Vasudev
#44. He who goes down to the grave does not return.
Moses
#45. We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave.
Carolee Dean
#46. this God, is revealed in Jesus Christ, who became flesh and walked among us full of grace and truth and who is so for us and with us that he would go to the grave on our behalf - when
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#47. Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.
Satish Kumar
#48. One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.
Agatha Christie
#49. The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.
Dennis Miller
#50. Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
Dorothy Parker
#51. Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave - but there's no need to be in the passing lane.
Robert Orben
#52. Do you find
Your patience so predominant in your nature
That you can let this go? Are you so gospelled,
To pray for this good man and for his issue,
Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave,
And beggared yours for ever?
William Shakespeare
#53. Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
Homer
#54. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of being well-preserved, but to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, still screaming, 'Whoo what a ride!
Theresa Hollis
#55. I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
Ice-T
#56. There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman
#57. From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.
T.F. Hodge
#58. We all belong to Him, from the cradle to the grave, whether we know it or not. And He'll see justice done in His own time and in His own way. Now if we trust in Him, that's all we have to think about. I'm not saying it's easy. I'm just saying it's what I think we're go do.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#60. There are some moments you won't completely heal from, those rare ones you will take torn open to the grave but throughout all the big moments that shake you up there will be countless tiny experiences that help you laugh all over again.
Nikki Rowe
#61. We must look into unknown dimensions, into Nature, into that incalculable and imponderable life, whose carrier and mediator, the blood of the Earth that accompanies us steadfastly from the cradle to the grave, is water.
Viktor Schauberger
#62. I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he's doddering off to the grave.
Cassandra Clare
#63. Among the tiny atomic structures the plankton take to the grave with them are two very stable isotopes - oxygen-16 and oxygen-18.
Bill Bryson
#65. Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.
Agatha Christie
#66. A good lawyer serves you from the cradle to the grave
Saira Viola
#67. I don't look at the wound. I don't need to. I watched the Commandant as she carved it into me, a thick-lined, precise K stretching from my collarbone to the skin over my heart. She branded me. Marked me as her property. It's a scar I'll carry to the grave.
Sabaa Tahir
#68. Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
Lord Byron
#69. But when a man has once broken through the paper walls of everyday circumstance, those unsubstantial walls that hold so many of us securely prisoned from the cradle to the grave, he has made a discovery. If the world does not please you, you can change it.
H.G.Wells
#70. No matter the species, the deadliest gender is always the female. Men will fight until they die. Women will take it to the grave and then find a way back.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.
DeWitt Wallace
#72. I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.
Joan Crawford
#73. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave
Awaits alike the inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray
#74. I heard some famous people had an anniversary, five long years together, it was Hollywood history. Now my grandma and grandpa never made no printed page, but they took the love of 57 years right to the grave.
Clay Walker
#75. Gordon watched them go. They were just by-products . The throw-outs of the money-god. All over London, by tens of thousands, draggled old beasts of that description: creeping like unclean beetles to the grave.
George Orwell
#76. I don't want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don't want to carry around anything that I don't have to. I want to travel light.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#77. I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.
Robert Duvall
#78. Hoarding kings are to be pitied in their lifetime
when they can't take their riches
to the grave.
- Gwallawg is Other
Taliesin
#79. From the cradle to the grave, you are measured against the ever-present yardstick of the average, judged according to how closely you approximate it or how far you are able to exceed it.
Todd Rose
#81. Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.
Petr Skrabanek
#82. That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!
Neal Shusterman
#83. Some secrets are meant to be taken to the grave, and that's what I plan on doing with all mine. They're not necessarily my secrets to tell. I'm the gatekeeper of other people's secrets.
Drew Lachey
#84. The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.
Russell Banks
#85. Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,
Rudyard Kipling
#86. Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
#87. Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.
Philip K. Dick
#88. Drop your weapons once and they will dig you in to the grave forever.
Ameya Agrawal
#89. Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.
Babur
#90. [T]he tremendous fact of our isolation, of the loneliness impenetrable and transparent, elusive and everlasting; of the indestructible loneliness that surrounds, envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and, perhaps, beyond.
Joseph Conrad
#91. I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo
#92. Every day and night we hope for a new day not knowing that it draws us nearer to the grave.
Auliq Ice
#93. They spoke three languages between them, and there weren't enough words to convey what they'd take to the grave, what they'd had a chance to taste before fate inevitably closed in. Dom
L.A. Witt
#94. I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.
Just Fontaine
#95. The fact that I ever raised my hand against a woman disgusts me. It was a f**king atrocious, unforgivable way to behave, and there's no excuse for it, ever. And like I said before, it's something I'll take to the grave with me.
Ozzy Osbourne
#96. (On George Eliot's narrative strategy)
It also forfeits the great game of the omniscient narrator, which is to know secrets which none of the characters involved will ever learn, ironically taking their unhappy ignorance to the grave.
Fredric Jameson
#97. Focus on bearing, and beauty will follow. Your looks will not remain with you for life. But your bearing will go with you to the grave.
Laila Ibrahim
#98. There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.
Robert Breault
#99. You can fix it as soon as you get up - you brush and use mouthwash - but there's something about knowing you woke up with hot-mothball mouth that makes you feel old. I think God designed our mouths to die first to help us slowly transition to the grave.
Tina Fey
#100. We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.
Donna Lynn Hope
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