I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land. (Quote by - Chief Joseph)

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical. (Quote by - Elaine Pagels)

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block. (Quote by - Billy Bob Thornton)

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)

Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork. (Quote by - English Proverb)

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible. (Quote by - Isaac Butt)

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. (Quote by - John Jewel)

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give. (Quote by - 'Abigail Adams)

What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod By man, the image of his God, Erect and free, Unscourged by Superstition's rod. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. (Quote by - Pearl S Buck)

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people. (Quote by - John Thorn)

The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way. (Quote by - Lisa Marie Presley)

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave (Quote by - Mark Twain)

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense. (Quote by - Herman Kahn)

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. (Quote by - Luis Bunuel)

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali Jinnah)

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. (Quote by - Satish Kumar)