Rahul Kohli

I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.

English Actor

Alex Tizon

Admitting the truth would have meant exposing us all. We spent our first decade in the country learning the ways of the new land and trying to fit in. Having a slave did not fit. Having a slave gave me grave doubts about what kind of people we were, what kind of place we came from.

Filipino Author

Lina Wertmuller

I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-historical character. I am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.

Italian Director

John Pearson

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.

British Theologian

Lewis Hamilton

On my back, I have the cross and angel wings: rise above it, no matter what life throws at you. And also, you know, Jesus rose from the grave.

British Driver

Les Dawson

My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.

English Comedian

Henry Ward Beecher

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

American Clergyman

Patricia Clarkson

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

American Actress

Quentin Crisp

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

English Writer

Pierre Corneille

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

French Dramatist

Grave is often associated with respect for the deceased; use this term with solemnity and care.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Grave' refers to a burial spot, not 'grave' as in a bed to 'lay down' for sleep.

Not for Sleep

Sometimes 'grave' is used metaphorically to mean a serious, possibly final, outcome.

Figurative Use

Using 'grave' in its adjective form conveys a strong sense of urgency or concern.

Emotional Weight

As an adjective, 'grave' isn't always about death, but indicates gravity or seriousness of a situation.

Not Always Death

'Grave' can combine with other words to specify the seriousness, like 'grave danger' means 'serious danger'.

Modifier Matters

As a verb, 'grave' is rarely used in modern English and has an archaic feel to it.

Rare and Historical

In music, 'grave' sets a tone of solemn, deep, or serious sound when used to describe tempo.

Musical Mood

The musical term 'grave' is technical jargon and isn't used in everyday conversation.

Not Common Language

 and go out on chain gangs and dig graves while members of the public jeer at them, and when those women get out of prison, they're going to have criminal records that mean they'll never work in the legal economy again. Now, that's a very extreme example, obviously, in the case of the chain gang, but actually almost everywhere in the world

Everything you think you...

 were being carefully placed in a grave some of them are wearing necklaces when they're buried some they play spoons and other offerings in the grave with the dog with the idea I think being essentially for some of them that they had souls they had an afterlife and people loved them so they treated them

Dogs: (Prehistoric)...

 In Shakespeare's canon, we see Hamlet's indecisiveness lead to a series of bad decisions, or perhaps non-decisions, that culminate in the death of almost every character in the play, and Macbeth's ambition catapults him to the top before sending him careening to his grave.

Why tragedies are...

 beyond the grave and you know and I'm trying to get yourself right finding out about other other other ways of looking at this world other than the you know the material then the moral you know and so therefore when you look at it like

A message of peace, hope...

 is a capacity even more important than their sense of empathy, altruism, and justice. Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead, performing burial rituals and returning to visit graves.

Why elephants never...

 bodies here in the Philippines caring for graves isn't a matter of placing flowers once a year and that's what makes it possible for the cemeteries residents to live here many people want

Living Among the Dead PIPE...

 he would pay for it with his life. Death and the doctor continued their travels. After some time, the king’s messengers came to collect the doctor yet again. The princess was gravely ill,

The tale of the doctor...

 all 12 infants confusion reigns if one gets left behind it's sure to be lost forever but if they don't find a new refuge that's out of reach of the stripes then they're in grave danger

Deadly Mongoose Battle PIPE...

 Loving elephants as I do, that was the saddest and greatest blunder of my life, and I will carry that to my grave. One good thing did come out of it. It made me absolutely determined

How to green the world's...

 toward graves designed to honor the dead, and burial became more common. Sometimes, these graves contained practical or ritual objects, suggesting belief in an afterlife

Grave

Cultural Sensitivity

Not for Sleep

Figurative Use

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