#grave

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. ↗

— Tecumseh

#country #defend #fathers #form #graves

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#ceased #curtailment #danger #grave #grave danger

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#breath #brief #brief moment #granted #grave

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#mistake #unnecessary #waging #war

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#advanced age #age #especially #feel #grave

My Own Epitaph Life's a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once, and now I know it. ↗

— John Gay

#humor #humor

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave. ↗

— Washington Irving

#death #grave #hour #ocean #time

Have you ever wondered what language they speak in Limbo? ↗

— Lee T. Gallup

#humor #inspirational #limbo #purgatory #inspirational

They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and fingers tapping at casements, of howlings and shriekings, groanings and scuttlings and the clanking of chains, of hooded monks and headless horseman, swirling mists and sudden winds, insubstantial specters and sheeted creatures, vampires and bloodhounds, bats and rats and spiders, of men found at dawn and women turned white-haired and raving lunatic, and of vanished corpses and curses upon heirs. ↗

— Susan Hill

#ghosts #gothic #graveyards #horror #ruins

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#assurance #benefits #bidding #checks #clear