You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.
The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.
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.
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
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.
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and Israel, and European powers including Britain, France, and Germany. This is a grave geopolitical miscalculation.
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.
