General Cemetery Company

Famous quotes containing the words general, cemetery and/or company:

    “The general so likes your music, that he desires you for love’s sake to make no more noise with it.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The cemetery isn’t really a place to make a statement.”
    —Mary Elizabeth Baker, U.S. cemetery committee head. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1988)

    “Yet, hermit and stoic as he was, he was really fond of sympathy, and threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people whom he loved, and whom he delighted to entertain, as he only could, with the varied and endless anecdotes of his experiences by field and river: and he was always ready to lead a huckleberry-party or a search for chestnuts and grapes.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)