Gravestone Quotes
40 quotes by 37 authors
-
There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable…
— George C. Marshall
-
I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let…
— Tom Peters
-
On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."
— Tom Waits
-
You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'
— Bette Davis
-
I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'
— Ian Mckellen
-
Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
— Edward Abbey
-
When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'
— Steve Blank
-
A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
— Al Purdy
-
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
— Wendell Phillips
-
In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that…
— Yukio Mishima
-
I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the…
— Marilyn Manson
-
I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a…
— David Ives
-
Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
— Patrick Stump
-
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
— Carlos Fuentes
-
My gravestone will say,'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?
— Damon Lindelof
-
Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.
— John C. McGinley
-
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
— Thomas Browne
-
When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my…
— Will Rogers
-
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be…
— Henry Louis Gates
-
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on…
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Who Wrote These Gravestone Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 40 Gravestone Quotes, led by these top contributors: