Tombstone Quotes - Page 7

• Nothing in Moderation We all loved him.

  Ernie Kovacs

  Love, Moderation

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• With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth

  Barbara La Marr

  Beauty, Joy, Youth

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• When you die there's going to be a tombstone. It's going to have your name. It's gonna have the year you're born and the day you die. In between there's going to be a dash. And that dash is going to represent everything you did in your life, good and bad. That's how you're remembered. What do you want your dash to represent?

  Tim Tebow

  Good Life, Years, Names

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• The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Symphony, Majority

  "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 156), 2004.

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• Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Jesus, Moving

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• Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Sea, Nymphs

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.219

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• In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wisdom, Integrity, Grateful

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• I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You.

  Eva Gabor

  Love You, Vermont, Frost

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• My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr. C, who used to be Mr. B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

  Tom Bosley

  Lying, Thinking, Wife

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

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• I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Bottom

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• Here lies Groucho Marx and Lies and Lies and Lies P.S. He never kissed an ugly girl.

  Groucho Marx

  Girl, Lying, Ugly

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• At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

  Jefferson Davis

  Soldier, Constitution, Defenders

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• I don't get no respect

  Rodney Dangerfield

  No Respect

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 14 June 1970

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• Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.

  Billy the Kid

  Kings, Boys, Men

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• Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

  Eve Arden

  Mother, Wife, World

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• If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Memories, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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

  Roger Goodell

  Parent, Goes On, Proud

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• I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

  Laurie Holden

  Want, Actresses, Headstone

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

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• He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Betrayal, Writing, Sake

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• When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

  Doris Roberts

  Giving Up, Answers, Headstone

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• I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

  Ali Smith

  Want, Headstone, Wanted

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• Steel True, Blade Straight.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Steel, Blades

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.12, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.

  Peter O'Toole

  Jobs, Blood, Years

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• Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!

  Keith Green

  Easter, Angel, Singing

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• James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

  Edward Abbey

  Great Work, Dead Ends, Buried

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