Kin Hubbard
Cartoonist, Humorist
"Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet."
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Buried
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Ruth Graham
Author, Speaker
"Every cat knows some things need to be buried."
Italo Calvino
Writer
"Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70."
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"All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried."
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"Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea."
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"Don't get buried in the thick of thin things."
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"Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'"
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"The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it."
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"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."
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"Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75."
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"If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox."
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"Better a living beggar than a buried emperor."
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"The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not."
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"We are buried beneath the weight of information."
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"In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand."
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"There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees."
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"Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah"
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"People's clothes ought to be buried with them."
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"Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" "Yes!" "Well, how?" Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Reluctantly."
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"My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.'"
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"Grief is like sinking, like being buried."
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"Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement."
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"We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life."
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