Two Graves Quotes

#1. I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together ... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

Morris Graves

#2. There are two healings: nature's, and ours and nature's. Nature's will come in spite of us, after us, over the graves of its wasters, as it comes to the forsaken fields. The healing that is ours and nature's will come if we are willing, if we are patient, if we know the way, if we will do the work.

Wendell Berry

#3. Hope you two boys can dig. There'll be some digging to do." "Graves?" Eddie asked, not sure if he was joking or not. "Graves come later." Roland looked up at the sky, but the clouds had advanced out of the west and stolen the stars. "Just remember, it's the winners who dig them.

Stephen King

#4. In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

Michael Ashcroft

#5. How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Wendell Phillips

#6. There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

Robert Graves

#7. When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

Jodi Picoult

#8. When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#9. You're the only thing I've ever done right in my entire life and if anything ever happened to you, they'd have to dig two graves 'cause I couldn't live a single day without my baby beside me. (Cherise)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. He who plots revenge must dig two graves.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#11. there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth.

Robert Graves

#12. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Confucius

#13. She won't serve her dish cold," the oracle mumbled, almost with giddy joy as chill bumps rose all over her skin. "And two graves won't be near enough...

Rachel Vincent

#14. She was very much familiar with the Confucian saying that you have to dig two graves once you decide to seek vengeance.

J.D. Stonebridge

#15. When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

Christopher Eccleston

#16. I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down ... The other accident is Diego.

Frida Kahlo

#17. I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.

Rupert Graves

#18. While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Douglas Horton

#19. In the days when I set off on month-long bicycle trips across France, my greatest pleasure was to stop in country cemeteries, to stretch out between two graves, and to smoke for hours on end. I think of those days as the most active period of my life.

Emil Cioran

#20. ...it was an old saying: three could keep a secret if but two of them lay in their graves...

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#21. Confucius said, "Before embarking upon a journey of revenge, dig two graves." I planned to dig seven.

Lili St. Germain

#22. He who seeks revenge should dig two graves.

Mick Haines

#23. When plotting revenge, you should dig two graves - one for your enemy, and the other for yourself

Nathan Robert Brown

#24. They say when seeking revenge, dig two graves, one for you and one for them.

J.M. Darhower

#25. Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.

Robert Graves

#26. Topper had once heard a saying, "If you set out on the path to revenge, first dig two graves." But things worked a little differently in the savage dwarf's head. So, he had remembered it like this, "If you set out on the path to revenge, first pour two glasses." And that's exactly what he did.

Patrick E. McLean

#27. If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

Confucius

#28. If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

Nelson A. Miles

#29. The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

Ken Kesey

#30. If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

Richard Brautigan

#31. With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I'd never forget the two little graves and the sacred red fern.

Wilson Rawls