Quotes and Sayings About Tombstone
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Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.
-- A. C. Green -
Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'
-- Alan Dershowitz -
My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.
-- Alastair Campbell -
In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
-- Ali Smith -
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
-- Andy Warhol -
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.
-- Ann Richards -
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.
-- Ann Richards -
Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.
-- Anna Mickelson -
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.
-- Bernard Ramm -
All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.
-- Bessie Smith -
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
-- Billy Sunday -
Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.
-- Billy the Kid -
Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues
-- Bob Dylan -
I was vanquished by a deer!' A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier. That sounds a little better,' Warren conceded. 'Seth is in charge of my tombstone.
-- Brandon Mull -
This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go. It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try and keep some dead singer’s perspective alive. It’s just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there and that you meant it but I guess sometimes people just chew with their mouth open so I ate ear plugs alive with my throat hoping they’d get lodged deep enough inside the empty spots that I wouldn’t have to hear you leaving
-- Buddy Wakefield -
Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could
-- Carrie Nation -
At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.
-- Charles Dickens -
The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.
-- Charles Dickens -
Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.
-- Charles Kuralt -
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
-- Charles Lamb
