You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather.
Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician; HE PASSED IT ON.
When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
The Stone the Builders Rejected.
How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.
Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun. " "I know," I said. "I don't either. " People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Steel True, Blade Straight.
A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''
Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [. . . ]
That's the one for my tombstone. . . Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.
His star will forever shine.
Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.
I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You.