Limits Quote by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but…

— Pericles

“At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims of the…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

— Walter Savage Landor

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere…

— Pericles

There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.

— Ryan Lindley

It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.

— Kurt Vonnegut

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation…

— Dwight L. Moody

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural…

— René Girard

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

— Frank Wedekind