Tombs Quotes

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

What about King Tut’s tomb?” I protested. “That boy king?” Zia rolled her eyes. “Boring. You should see some of the good tombs.

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.

The libraries, like tombs, were closed forever.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.

Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.

In politics, as in religion, there are devotees who show their reverence for a departed saint by converting his tomb into a sanctuary for crime.

We've found that patterns of site looting have increased between 500 and 1000 percent since the start of the Arab Spring. Now this is a problem as old as human beings. People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.