Cemeteries Quotes
Mortality and quiet reflection
These cemeteries quotes include a surprisingly warm childhood memory of a family gravestone business, treating burial grounds as an ordinary, always-familiar playground.
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and...
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a...
Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.
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Others are more reflective, citing De Gaulle's line that cemeteries are full of once indispensable men, alongside a theory that some towns hold bad energy from what was built on them.
