Pastoral Resources

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave.

Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

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

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.