Tombstone Quotes - Page 6

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

  Eve Arden

  Mother, Wife, World

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

  Jefferson Davis

  Soldier, Constitution, Defenders

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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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• With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth

  Barbara La Marr

  Beauty, Joy, Youth

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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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• 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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• 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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• I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

  Ann Richards

  Thinking, Government, House

  "Former Texas Governor Ann Richards Dies at 73". www.foxnews.com. September 14, 2006.

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• On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

  Ken Wilber

  Writing, Someday

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• Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

  A. C. Green

  Kids, Dying, Causes

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• Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

  Dennis Flanagan

  Names, Ideas, Two

  Dennis Flanagan (1988). “Flanagan's Version: A Spectator's Guide to Science on the Eve of the 21st Century”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  People, 30th Birthday, Great Men

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• Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Tragedy, Triumph, Towers

  "PG&E's real estate rumors" by David Lazarus, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2001.

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• I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive.'

  Robert Brunner

  Lying, Guy, Sometimes

  "An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992" by Max Chafkin, www.fastcodesign.com. September 03, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'

  Will Rogers

  Party, Government, Moral Leadership

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• How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

  Bill Vaughan

  Names, Two, Lasts

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• A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

  Bernard Ramm

  Cutting, Funeral, Inscriptions

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• All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Alive, Lasts

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.190, Routledge

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• 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

  Book, Bed, Easy

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

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