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Tombstone Quotes

Tombstone Definition  
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Spurgeon

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

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."
Andy Warhol

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt

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

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Andy Warhol

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."
Katherine Dunham

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

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

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

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
Aubrey de Vere

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
Margaret Smith

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
Earl Weaver

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
David Byrne

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.
Mary Wilson Little

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.
Yul Brynner

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






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