Gravestone Quotes
40 Gravestone quotes by 37 unique authors
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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
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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
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."
— Tom Waits
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You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'
— Bette Davis
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I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'
— Ian Mckellen
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Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
— Edward Abbey
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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
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A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
— Al Purdy
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Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
— Wendell Phillips
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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
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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
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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
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Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
— Patrick Stump
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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
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My gravestone will say,'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?
— Damon Lindelof
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Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.
— John C. McGinley
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Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
— Thomas Browne
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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
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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
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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
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I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'
— Jesse Ventura
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Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going…
— Alice Munro
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I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and…
— Anne Lamott
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One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In…
— Margaret Atwood
Who Wrote These Gravestone Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 40 Gravestone Quotes, led by these top contributors: