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Letter "B" » buried
«My young son asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth - that most of us go to Hell and burn eternally - but I didn't want to upset him.»
Author: Jack Handy
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Writer)
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About:
Death and dying,
Funny
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Keywords:
bodies,
bunch,
buried,
dirt,
eternally,
guess,
Son,
upset,
upsets,
upsetting,
worm-eaten,
worms
«Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.»
«There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.»
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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Activist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
buried,
crosses,
diagonal,
dizzying,
D Day,
Graves,
graveyard,
like this,
Northern,
orchard,
orchards,
rows
«The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was con»
Author: Edward Gibbon
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Historian)
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Keywords:
buried,
clergy,
cloister,
cloistered,
con,
cons,
discouraged,
doctrines,
portion,
preached,
pusillanimity,
successfully
«Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.»
«Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.»
«Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.»
«Surprise me. [Answering his wife Carmen to the question: If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?]»
«Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
buried,
familiar spirit,
Israel,
I Samuel,
lamented,
lamenting,
land of the dead,
put away,
Ramah,
Samuel,
Saul,
wizard,
Wizards
«The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried.»