That's right. They wasn't all killed by the road, especially the ones from back in my time as a child.
9 seconds sound clip from the Pet Sematary (1989) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:12:06 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Well, they have to learn about death somehow, now, don't they?
- Why?
- Daddy, look, this one's a goldfishy.
- They get older as you go towards the middle. Harder to read.
- Missy Ellen, come over here just a minute.
- That's where I buried my dog, Spot, when he died of old age in 1924.
- Do you know what a graveyard really is?
- It's a place where the dead speak. No, not right out loud. Their stones speak or their markers.
- This ain't a scary place, Ellie. It's a place of rest and speaking. Can you remember that?
[...]