Brother Quote by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away…

— Barbara Quick

“Century and after century, headstones and grave markers were crafted, marble shrines to lost life and to bodies that could neither see nor touch…

— Jacqueline E. Smith

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

— Manfred von Richthofen

“Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once all the…

— Jim Butcher

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles

“The graveyard was at the top of the hill. It looked over all of the town. The town was hills - hills that issued…

— Ray Bradbury

“They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered…

— Ambrose Bierce

I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because…

— Michael Chabon

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

— Ratan Tata

INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kinds, but mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some illustrious person…

— Ambrose Bierce

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

— Judith Thurman

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