Grave Markers Quotes

#1. Century and after century, headstones and grave markers were crafted, marble shrines to lost life and to bodies that could neither see nor touch nor think nor feel, bodies that were respected and appreciated more after death than some ever could have hoped to be in life.

Jacqueline E. Smith

#2. In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.

Mark Helprin

#3. N.F.F.N.S.N.C. Non Fui; Fui; Non Sum; Non Curo. "I was not, I was, I am not, I care not." It's a Latin saying found on Roman grave markers. It means I wasn't bothered about not existing before I existed and I'm not bothered about not existing now that I don't exist.

Epicurus

#4. When autumn gusts blew in from the Rideau Lakes, parched brown leaves swirled and scattered around the sides of the neglected building, forming mounds like grave-markers, for ghosts of the past, who lingered on the dust-covered dance floor.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#5. Last words are a kindness and I am not feeling kind.

Heather Demetrios

#6. I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus.

Randy Travis

#7. Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

Gordon Lightfoot

#8. Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henrik Ibsen

#9. But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

Alonzo King

#11. books were girls, and reading was s-ss-ssss - fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I'd be the most ruthless pimp you ever met.

Joe Hill

#12. Change the size of your dreams if that's what's keep you static. Go for bigger dreams, but start in a small way. See the bigger picture and live by the desire to become excellent!

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.

Craig Johnson

#14. If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that's a script!

Terrence Malick

#15. It seems the great advantage of people who annoy us is motivation to engage in reflection.

Auliq Ice

#16. Lord, bend me, or I shall rot.
Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break.
Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#17. In a matter of some generations all the stupid ones will die out and those with your discipline will inherit the Earth

Robert A. Heinlein