Words matter. These are the best Tombstone Quotes from famous people such as Charles Spurgeon, Jefferson Davis, Rita Rudner, Laurie Holden, Joshua Jackson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
On my tombstone it will say: ‘I tried everything – nothing was easy.’
I don’t want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.
I was briefly in the original version of ‘Tombstone,’ but I didn’t make the final cut because that movie went through a couple of different permutations.
I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
Having ‘Oscar winner’ on your tombstone is a great thing.
Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.
On my tombstone just write, ‘The sorest loser that ever lived.’
The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.
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.’
You only live once. You don’t want your tombstone to read: ‘Played it Safe.’
I was never a western guy, but I happened upon ‘Tombstone’ one day on TV and was really sort of taken with it. It’s one of those movies that, if it’s on TV, I can’t turn it off. I just have to watch the whole thing.
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.
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
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.’
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.’
If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what’s written on my tombstone, I’ll be very happy.
Fire Yourself. Outsource some of your life. Because you know what won’t be cute on a tombstone? ‘Her grind was impeccable, and she did it all by herself.’
On my tombstone, I want written: ‘He never did ‘Love Boat!’
I did once answer the question ‘What would you say on your tombstone?’ I know what I would say: ‘Mario Cuomo, 1932 – dash,’ and, ‘He tried.’ That’s it.
If I have a tombstone when it’s all over, it will say, ‘He tried to connect.’
It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, ‘Here lies Hikaru Sulu,’ and in very tiny letters, ‘aka George Takei.’ I don’t protest the inevitable.
I hope that on my tombstone it says ‘Born 1933, died 2043.’ I hope that’s my legacy.
Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.
I know what I’m having ’em put on my tombstone: ‘I have nothing more to say’.
Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.
Memory, in widow’s weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
That’s the one for my tombstone… Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
