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Quotes About Memorial

Hello, sir. Yes...Uh-huh...Yes...You say that you want to bury your aunt with a Christmas tree in her coffin? Uh-huh...She wanted it that way...I'll see what I can do for you, sir. Oh, you have the measurements of the coffin with you? Very good...We have our coffin-sized Christmas trees right over here, sir.
~ Richard Brautigan
I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.
~ Julie Andrews
There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them. — ECCLESIASTICUS 44:8–9 Barn
~ Julie Otsuka
I have conquered them all, but I am standing amongst graves
~ Karen Blixen
Lydia supposed his headstone had been ordered. Something large and garish made of the finest marble and phallic shaped because being dead didn't stop you from being a dick.
~ Karin Slaughter
Lydia supposed his headstone had been ordered. Something large and garish made of the finest marble and phallic shaped because being dead didn't stop you from being a dick.
~ Karin Slaughter
Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
~ Tacitus
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
~ Thomas Browne
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
~ Thucydides
If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.
~ John Shaw Billings
If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?
~ John Vance Cheney
There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!
~ Courteney Cox
The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
~ Charles de Gaulle
One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.
~ David Mitchell
Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
When a man dies he kicks the dust.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.
~ Cathy Guisewite
[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.
~ John Major
George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.
~ Ray Stevens
When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.
~ Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.
~ Kris Kristofferson
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
~ Debbie Harry
Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
~ John Donne