- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Burying Quotes
Reflective quotes on burying loss, grudges, and the weight of debt.
These quotes explore burying in both literal and figurative senses, from a somber memory of burying a young girl who had died of a ruptured appendix to a warning about generations being buried under mounting debt. The tone throughout is reflective rather than light.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so that one day someone would dig it up, like a time capsule.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no more burying our heads in the sand by being afraid to even mention the words 'climate change' aloud.
- Bailing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your own children.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.
- Nov 07, 2020
We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
- Nov 07, 2020
I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.
- Clean Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans know our only response in the face of mounting risks from climate change must be the swift transition to a clean energy economy. We do not have the luxury of burying our heads in the sand.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020