Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bessie Smith

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

Agnes de Mille

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Carl Jung

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Billy Sunday

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.

Ciara

I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

Cassie Scerbo

I'm a tomboy at heart, and I've got the battle wounds to prove it!

Jack Dempsey

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

Jack London

The Stone the Builders Rejected.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

James Joseph Sylvester

Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave testamentary directions for the cubic eikosiheptagram to be engraved on theirs. Spirit of the Universe! wither are we drifting, and when, where, and how is all this to end?

James Joyce

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

Mort Sahl

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

Peg Bracken

Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things ... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

Lewis Mumford

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

Stephen King

Human beings have got a lot, of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons for years and nothing's happened. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If American president pushes the button, or somebody pushes the button in Russia, or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

Soren Kierkegaard

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

Regina Brett

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

Rosario Dawson

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

Tom Bosley

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.

Steven Morrissey

When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

"The Entertainer" He did it all.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Rachel Caine

Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded," Shane said. Second finger. "Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank." Third finger. "Killed over ice cream. Basically, any death that requires me to be stupid first.

Rita Hayworth

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

Roger Goodell

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

Rudyard Kipling

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect

Vladimir Lenin

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

Jefferson Davis

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

Jefferson Davis

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

Jean Paul

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

Ernie Kovacs

Nothing in Moderation We all loved him.