Headstone Quotes - Page 4

• I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

  Ted Turner

  Happiness, Tombstone, Ems

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• My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

  Alastair Campbell

  Tombstone, Flower, Long Ago

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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• Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Drunk, Joy

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• Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tombstone, Few Words, Dignity

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• I swear to you on any kind of sacred whateverthefuck you favor: if I live through this I will absolutely start taking your advice." "That'll look nice on your headstone.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Nice, Advice, Looks

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• Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.

  Alan Brennert

  Divorce, Ties, People

  Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press

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• We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone’s parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

  William Kent Krueger

  Heart, Men, Air

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• You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

  Rosario Dawson

  Tombstone, Safe, Want

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• We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

  Teresa of Avila

  Religious, Catholic, Suffering

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.345, A&C Black

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• Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

  Cicely Tyson

  Life, Women, Adversity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Kings, Men, Justice

  Nikki Giovanni (1993). “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People”, p.28, Chicago Review Press

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• Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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• I recall the look in Rhauk's eyes the moment he spotted Kate. It will stay with me forever, carved into my brain like an engraving on a headstone. It's as if he found something he treasured, something he's been looking for all his life.

  Marianne Curley

  Eye, Forever, Brain

  Marianne Curley (2012). “Old Magic”, p.135, A&C Black

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• The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.

  Kevin Williamson

  Memories, Dust, Names

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• A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true.' She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. 'Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Sexy, Nice

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• Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.

  Douglas Adams

  Media, Hitchhiking, Want

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future" (BBC Radio 4) with Douglas Adams, 2001.

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• If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

  Rebecca West

  Time, Race, Ideas

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• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Positivity, Self Reliance

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

  Franco Nero

  Tombstone, Love Is, Years

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• In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.

  George Clooney

  Children, Men, Israel

  United Nations Security Council Address on Darfur, delivered 14 September 2006, New York City

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• George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones, and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate, just horrible, y'know.

  Alan Goldsher

  Dirty, Angel, Men

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• I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)

  Spike Milligan

  Ill

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• As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Time, Reality

  1887 'Sixty-Eighth Birthday'.

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• The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

  Roger Goodell

  Tombstone, Parent, Goes On

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• Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

  Billy Sunday

  Tombstone, Finals, Behind You

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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