Pastoral Resources

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

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

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