Famous Quotes & Sayings

When I die I want to be buried with a notebook and two sharpened pencils, because a computer will someday become outdated, but pencil and paper will be used forever.

When it was time for us to come down and make the play, we just couldn't get that next basket. We just buried ourselves (in the first quarter).

There are thousands of co-heads, chiefs and directors now. You don't know if they are top people or are buried in middle management somewhere.

Benjamin Franklin

Many men die at twenty- five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

She got stuck under the house, and I could hear her meowing, and I couldn't get her. She was 13 years old. That's kind of hard on the family. We buried her yesterday.

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.

We have to give the sad news that we have found another victim. Only one more person lies buried under the rubble.

James E. Faust

When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.

Nobody with common sense would come in and put this stuff down. That's what they're telling us: They don't want us to be buried here no more.

I am learning to trust my instincts, rather than struggle too hard with reason ... because reason can get buried in misinformation, or too much information; and it can lack the miracle of love.

Cat played a great game. She buried shot after shot and played great defense.

I don't treat my dog like that. I buried my dog. You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here.

I don't treat my dog like that. I buried my dog.

One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.

David Jones

If we don't provide that opportunity, then if we have a prodigy buried in there some place or some kind of gift, then it never shows.

Chris had a great game. He stepped it up and buried the shots. In the last couple of games he passed up on a lot of shots he probably should have taken, but today he took them.

Those other diseases didn't simply go away. They tended to be buried in at-risk populations who were the poorest and most marginalized.

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?

Dinaw Mengestu

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.

I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.

We'll see how Richard works out over the week. I'll be glad if he plays this weekend given that he was supposed to be dead and buried two weeks ago.

There are so many stories and so many important people buried here. Our hope is that we can do this every year and learn more about the people.

Lady Gregory

Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Juan Peron, I think in the end, had become a little resentful of Eva. She was so popular. She was so much more loved than he was. And he never wanted to be buried in the same tomb with her. So she was buried in her family crypt; he was buried in his own crypt.

I was coming in too fast, but then I kind of gathered myself and stopped, and then got some composure and buried the backhand.

Robert Manne

It is a mystery that has been buried and only now that the ice and snow have melted, can we unravel that mystery.

Ray Emery

I thought we were flying out there. That magic that a lot of these guys have, you could see it ... when we got chances, we buried them.

Jay, who buried his grandfather earlier today, came out and played so well, showed so much heart; it was a very special performance.

Ruth Rendell

I think what would I do next if, as in his case, he goes to look at the place where a serial killer lived and indeed buried his victims and instead of finding this very squalid and sinister street he finds it's all gone and the whole place has been turned into a very pretty little enclave of small, pretty houses and gardens and trees and flowers and cobbled streets.

Bette Davis

It is my last wish to be buried sitting up.

He should be buried in the place where he belongs, in the capital of our country, there is no discussion about that.

Frank Robinson

We have to be patient a little longer with what we have. How much longer? I can't tell you right now. Certainly, we can't get ourselves buried to the point where we can't dig ourselves out of it if we get on a hot streak.