I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

- Elizabeth I

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

- Henry Adams

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.

- Gwen Moore

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

- Georg Buchner

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

- Georg Buchner

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

- Gerald R. Ford

From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.

- F. Sionil Jose

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

- Ellen Glasgow

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

- Edward Young

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

- Elvis Presley

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

- Abigail Adams

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

- Douglas Coupland

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

- Dan Quayle

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

- Compay Segundo

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

- Christine Keeler

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

- Billy Bob Thornton

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

- Bobby Bowden

If I did all the stuff I've been accused of - or credited with - there's no way I could make all this music. I'd be drinking myself into the grave.

- Al Jourgensen

It was a grave mistake to dismantle the Jewish communities in Sinai.

- Ariel Sharon

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.

- Ann Coulter