Cemetery Marker Quotes & Sayings

Metallic trees. That's new. If you see any steel dryads, be sure to tell me so I can run away screaming. — Julie Kagawa

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them. — Anthony Powell

The driving aesthetic of military style is uniformity. Whence the word uniform. From first inspection to Arlington National Cemetery, soldiers look like those around them: same hat, same boots, identical white grave marker. They are discouraged from looking unique, because that would encourage them to feel unique, to feel like an individual. The problem with individuals is that they think for themselves and of themselves, rather than for and of their unit. They're the lone goldfish on the old Pepperidge Farm bags, swimming the other way. They're a problem. — Mary Roach

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. — Thomas Beecham

By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. — C.S. Lewis

I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human helplessness, of human insufficiency, until we will rest no more upon human plans, but have God's thoughts, God's voice, and the Holy Spirit to speak to us. — Smith Wigglesworth

It's the same guilty game I've been playing all along, to be near Caleb, regardless of the circumstance or cost. — Tarryn Fisher

Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we're done with this world, but a single person's 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh's pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag. — Edward Humes

Stop the traffic...let 'em through... — Louis Tomlinson

Money has never been my primary goal. — Bryan Cranston

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship. — Tim Allen