Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shatner

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect

Will Rogers

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

Rudyard Kipling

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Ken Wilber

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...

Keith Richards

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Carl Jung

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

Robert E. Lee

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Richard P. Feynman

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

Richard Hofstadter

We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

Richard Baxter

That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

Umberto Eco

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

William Jennings Bryan

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

Woodrow Wilson

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

William Saroyan

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

Richard Notebaert

If you could wave a wand tomorrow that's the only thing we'd sell.

Jose Rizal

Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

Kurt Cobain

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came

Eric Hoffer

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Norman Schwarzkopf

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

Epicurus

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness...

Lauren Oliver

The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.

Kirby Puckett

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Olivier Martinez

Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.