Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Sparks

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

Michael Crichton

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Mehmet Oz

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

Oscar Wilde

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Ken Wilber

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

Keith Richards

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician; HE PASSED IT ON.

Keanu Reeves

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

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.'

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.

Merv Griffin

I will not be back after these messages

Milan Kundera

Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time..

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.

Rosario Dawson

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

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."

William Shatner

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

Roger Goodell

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

Walter Winchell

Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.

Will Rogers

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

Will Rogers

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.'

Yul Brynner

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

Vladimir Lenin

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

Laurie Holden

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

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!"

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect

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.

Rita Hayworth

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

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.