Definition of Cemetery

Cemetery

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

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Cemetery Quotations

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
Steve Jobs

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Pope John Paul II

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.
Henny Youngman

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Babe Ruth

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Charles Baudelaire

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.
F. Murray Abraham

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Elsa Maxwell

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.
Rick Perry

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
Muhammad Iqbal

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
Colonel Sanders

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.
George Stephen

In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery.
Tom DeLay

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.
Red Adair

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
Lewis H. Lapham

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.
Franco Nero

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.
Satish Kumar

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.
Juan Manuel Fangio

War is the cemetery of futures promised.
John Cory

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Cemetery Translations

cemetery in Dutch is begraafplaats, kerkhof
cemetery in German is Friedhof
cemetery in Italian is camposanto, cimitero
cemetery in Spanish is cementerio

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