Good Tombstone Quotes

#1. The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches.
-Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page 24

Robert R. Mitchell

#2. 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 Haddon Spurgeon

#3. That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Dorothy Parker

#4. The two-year note has become the Treasury market's gauge of expectations regarding when and how quickly the Fed will raise rates.

Anonymous

#5. 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

#6. Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny.

Jenny Mollen

#7. Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.

Michael Moore

#8. Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation ... Not all are destined to get there ... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

Paul Klee

#9. It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "such a good teacher/daughter/friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is F*** YOU ALL.

Claire Messud

#10. I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

Rachel Weisz

#11. No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man ... and dead.

Louis L'Amour

#13. From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

Tyler Farr

#14. The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#15. Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

Robert Genn

#16. It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But

Cherie Priest

#17. Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

Vladimir Lenin

#18. The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.

Hans Christian Andersen

#19. His baby brother is getting married next month - well, not married but remarried. No, that's not right either.

Jamie McGuire

#20. In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

James Baldwin

#21. I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.

Tara Reid

#22. Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their right to exist. About three women a day are murdered by spouses or ex-spouses in this country. It's one of the main causes of death for pregnant women in the United States. At

Rebecca Solnit

#23. In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

Albert Schweitzer

#24. My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

James Earl Jones

#25. Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.

Douglas Fairbanks

#26. I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

Eliza Coupe

#27. None of us can accept all what we may be offered in this life. Sometimes we must say no, even to love.

Cameron Dokey