Gravestone Quotes - Page 4

• ... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

  Michael Light

  Cameras, Photograph, Impression

  "100 Suns and the Nuclear Sublime". Interview with Robert Hirsch, lightresearch.net. July / August 2005.

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• Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

  Dick Van Dyke

  Helping, Wanted, Glad

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• How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

  Lawrence Fagg

  People, Funeral, Might

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• You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Sides, Plugs, Knows

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• I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Tombstone, Book, Coffee

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

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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 to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, War, Mean

  George C. Marshall's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, nobelprize.org. December 11, 1953.

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• Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon

  Kristin Cashore

  Dark, Night, Patches

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had ever known. The earth was flat and brown, a field of dirt as barren as the moon, a single road stretching in the distance. the last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. Then they disappeared, and there was nothing left but nothing.

  Dan Wells

  Distance, Fall, Moon

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• Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Doe, Stories

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do.

  George R. R. Martin

  Clever, Men, Doe

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.863, Bantam

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• Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

  Patrick Stump

  Aerosmith

  "Patrick Stump: 'I’m Not in Fall Out Boy'" by William Goodman, www.spin.com. February 3, 2010.

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• I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

  Jesse Ventura

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

  "Kerry Washington’s Reason For Taking A Digital Detox Is Perfect" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2016.

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• When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

  Patricia Briggs

  Heart, Mean, Next

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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 time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

  Will Rogers

  Reading, Men, Waiting

  "The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.

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• Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.

  Visar Zhiti

  Handcuffs

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• [On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

  Barbara Walters

  Hands, Should Have, Want

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• New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

  Walter Tevis

  New York, Empires, Building

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• Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

  John C. McGinley

  Lines, Want

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