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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Giacomo Casanova

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Pericles

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Anthony Sampson

It is my biggest dream in life to visit his tomb.

Henry Adamczyk

I think that people who have tried to adapt games to cinema have tried to adapt a game to something that's cinematic. With 'Tomb Raider' they tried to make an Indiana Jones film, with 'Doom' they tried to make an 'Aliens' movie, and with the 'Resident Evil' movies they tried to make zombie films.

Christophe Gans

A rainbow and a cuckoo's song / May never come together again; / May never come / This side the tomb.

William Henry Davies

Jesus comes out of the tomb in smoke and black lights, surrounded by 21 angels.

Tony Ruiz

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Margaret Cavendish

There's nothing more solemn than truth. There's no greater grievance to a tomb than hypocrisy, or a greater tribute to death than truth.

Luis Munoz marin

There was nothing I could do to try to reproduce it, so I did some symbolic illusions. . . . We had to go into skeptics' views, such as maybe Jesus never did actually die on the cross and maybe Jesus was never put into the tomb.

Brock Gill

Love lies beyond / The tomb, the earth, which fades like dew! / I love the fond, / The faithful, and the true.

John Clare

It's all to help support them in their current job or job search. The womb-to-tomb employment that companies used to offer doesn't exist anymore. You have to take care of yourself.

Nancy Keene

This was the Lazarus campaign. In January, we were dead and in the tomb.

John Franco

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

Karl Shapiro

Only Love Can Break Your HeartSummer, you're unwelcome in my room,leave me be, overwhelmed by grief. Drunk on whiskey from The Pharaoh's Tomb I'm weak as a pacifist, I'm eaten alive by jealousy, only god knows why. Just like only god knows why Alan said coming out is fab and brilllike falling in love.Summer, be gone! Alan's gone. Family and friends are gone.

David Harkins

A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is not the proper time to open the tomb at the moment, since so many things still remain unknown.

Duan Qingbo

Far from being a curse, it might be lucky to disturb a pharaoh's tomb. These people beat the life span expectation for those days by about a year.

James Randi

The objects in the tomb don't necessarily date to the original tomb. The objects could be 200 to 400 years later than the original cutting of the tomb.

Kent Weeks

If my death contributes to the ceasing of the parties and to the consolidation of the union,I shall go down in peace to my tomb.

Simón Bolívar

I'm with him from the womb to the tomb. I love him.

Buddy Mcgirt

The tomb-sweepers' feelings are understandable. But burning these messy things -- not only is it mired in feudal superstition, but it just appears low and vulgar.

Dou Yupei

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

Dorothy L. Sayers

It could be the tomb of a king's wife or son, or of a priest or court official.

Kent Weeks

We find out more about that great voiceless mass — the poor, women, slaves — from the tomb inscriptions.

Jonathan Stamp

EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Following is a touching example: Here lie the bones of Parson Platt, Wise, pious, humble and all that, Who showed us life as all should live it; Let that be said -- and God forgive it!

Ambrose Bierce

I love the atmosphere of Easter sunrise. (In the first Easter), the women started for the tomb before it was even light, so (a sunrise service) fits very well.

Bill Stonebraker

I liked the really big tomb. It was solid gold and nothing else.

Jack Kahn

It's a big, mixed eclectic list that goes from 1900 to the present day, and the Design Museum felt that some of the biggest success stories of the last 10-15 years weren't just about things like the Dyson vacuum cleaner, but were things like Grand Theft Auto and Tomb Raider.

Eddie Morgan

I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

Zahi Hawass

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

Zahi Hawass

I don't think it's a royal tomb, maybe members of the court.

Edwin Brock