Quotes About Gravestones

#1. also may be untrue. One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive? Does Luke hope?

Margaret Atwood

#2. The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

Andy Andrews

#3. Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

Jane Smiley

#4. Some people won't have kids, but I'm not going to have parents. I'm burning their birth certificates and defacing their gravestones tonight.

Bauvard

#5. He liked churchyards. The graves themselves, were, of course, important, being the final resting places for the earthly remains of people-real people just like himself. They were valuable tributes from loving relatives, who'd cared about those people in life; the gravestones were historical records.

Charmian Hussey

#6. The sunlight, penetrating the gaps in the tall trees, plays chess on the gravestones, shifting slowly and thoughtfully across the worn old stones. The wind, like a hundred violins, plays perpetually in the topmost branches of the deodars.

Ruskin Bond

#7. Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.
(from "Gratitude")

Visar Zhiti

#8. One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.
In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?

Margaret Atwood

#9. The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Emile Zola

#10. My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

Zach Roerig

#11. Yes, there were good memories, too, thirty-seven years of good and bad. Quarrels and reconciliations. Eight cradles and too many gravestones and Rosamund Clifford and power that rivalled Caesar's, an empire that stretched from the Scots border to the Mediterranean Sea.

Sharon Kay Penman

#12. This notice has been written, because I felt it a sacred duty to wipe the dust off their gravestones, and leave their dear names free from soil.

Charlotte Bronte

#13. Only the Christian faith claims that its Leader died and rose again and is alive at this moment. Many gravestones carry the inscription, "Here lies ... ," but on Christ's tomb are emblazoned the words, "He is not here.

Billy Graham

#14. Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones.

Maureen Corrigan

#15. The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

Dan Wells

#16. We three just stared. I thought of Macbeth's witches huddled around their cauldron. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags. What is't you do?
A deed without a name.
We were as quiet as the gravestones around us.

Tessa Gratton

#17. I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no memorials to heroes, no gravestones, no paper and no ink.

J.M. McDermott

#18. Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did.

Betty Friedan

#19. The start date and the end date are always the important bits on the gravestones, written in big letters. The dash in between is always so small you can barely see it. Surely the dash should be big and bright and amazing, or not, depending on how you had lived.

Brooke Davis

#20. If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

Stephenie Meyer

#21. No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.

George Harrison

#22. Today, salute, mile, serve, deep. And I am never doing that again.-Kavi

Hilari Bell

#23. I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.

Pat Travers

#24. Animals that fly seem to violate the laws of physics, but only until you learn a bit more about physics.

Jonathan Haidt

#25. If you go running, you put on sneakers. When you go bowling, you take your personal bowling balls with you. In much the same fashion, it won't be long before you have your special sunglasses to take to the movie theater.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

#26. Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

Mitch Daniels

#27. The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.

Dayo Okeniyi

#28. Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

David W. Earle