#grave

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#age #all things #comes #death #easier

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#commercial #during #grave #grave threat #japan

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#dream #earth #graves #greatness #heaven

I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#because #black #completely #confederate #folks

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#freedom #gave #go-ahead #grave #his

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#finishes #grave #halfway #his #only

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. ↗

— Gail Devers

#disease #given #gland #graves #i

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#grave #his #lincoln #over #today

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#father #grave #his #love #man

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#america #barred #battle #been #colored