Tomb Stone Quotes

#1. The older you get, the better you realize you were.

George Carlin

#2. On the top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble - for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone - was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: 'The dead travel fast.

Bram Stoker

#3. The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

Sarah Ash

#4. On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

Josh McDowell

#5. Time is no river. Not here. In this tomb, time is the stone. It is the darkness, permanent and unyielding, its only measure the twin pendulums of life - breath and the beating of my heart. In.

Pierce Brown

#6. I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.

Jose Canseco

#7. Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

Sean Astin

#9. When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

Confucius

#10. Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

Mick Jagger

#11. I can't deal with criticism very well. I've already got it from one angle. I don't need it from anything else.

Robert Pattinson

#12. My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

Patti Davis

#13. Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#14. "I want to stay alive in pretty much 90% of my movies. Slaughtering isn't exactly what I'm going for, but I will play edgy for sure."

Miley Cyrus

#15. The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

Soren Kierkegaard

#16. Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives.

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. Some incredible bit of magic got into my corner of the universe, and i have to trust in the universe that it's happening for a reason

Alexandra Potter

#18. We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

Mark Twain

#19. I go dog-walking a lot.

Lesley Nicol

#20. Failure is the mechanism of learning.

Geoffrey Ballard

#21. I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. Come to me swiftly, carry no trace. Lift me softly, then flow and race.

Shannon Messenger

#23. Poverty is rooted in broken relationships, so the solution to poverty is rooted in the power of Jesus' death and resurrection to put all things in right relationship again.

Brian Fikkert

#24. What is Aldous capable of?"
"Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything."
"Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?"
"So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.

Cassandra Clare

#25. The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in.

Donald Barnhouse

#26. The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Pericles

#27. The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.

Timothy Keller

#28. I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. ACHILLES, it reads. And beside it, PATROCLUS.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you.

Madeline Miller