Graveyard Quotes

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard. - Alexander Cockburn

There's a misconception that all we want is a graveyard. We want a place that projects the goodness of people. - Monica Iken

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. - Barbara Kingsolver

There is no one person in the Bush administration who is indispensable with the exception of the president. Graveyards are full of indispensable people. - Charles De Gaulle

The watery graveyard that is New Orleans. - Christiane Amanpour

The U.S. has been a graveyard for U.K. retailers, so investors are a little cautious. It could be that it wants to a get a flavor for the market through a small operation and then make a massive acquisition to get instant size. - Stuart Fraser

The towns lay out across the dusty planes, like graveyards filled with tombstones, waiting for the names. - The Eagles

The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt. - Larry Sabato

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. - Robert Smithson