#tombstone

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' ↗

— Ann Richards

#did #everyone #government #house #i

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

#carve #character #good #good character #hearts

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

#arrived #because #buried #dead #feel

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#admirers #ago #been #buried #cemetery

Tombstones don't talk back. ↗

— Leland Chapman

#talk #tombstones

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name. ↗

— Dennis Flanagan

#being #hack #i #idea #like

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

— Katherine Dunham

#i #now #she #tombstone #tried

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

#always #blank #could #died #epitaph

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

— Franco Nero

#behind #cemetery #cross #left #love

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#am #any #better #different #done