D. B. Sweeney

If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

American Actor

Joni Eareckson Tada

You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.

American Author

Frances McDormand

I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.

American Actress

Doug Harvey

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.

Canadian Athlete

Carlos Fuentes

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Mexican Novelist

Ian Mckellen

When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.

English Actor

Dick Van Dyke

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.

Cilla Black

On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.

British Musician

Jesse Ventura

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.

American Politician

John C. McGinley

Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

Gravestones are treated with respect; avoid using them in humorous or disrespectful contexts.

Cultural Respect

Gravestones are found in graveyards or cemeteries, often among other funeral-related terms.

Graveyard Vocabulary

Gravestones are made of durable materials like stone or marble to withstand time and weather.

Material Importance

 he turned an aboveground tomb into a two-story house few people would want to do their laundry only feet away from a corpse and a crypt or brush their teeth on top of a gravestone there's even an

Living Among the Dead PIPE...

 on science to to answer the question what is it that animates living boomers what is the difference between a piece of rock that's carved into a gravestone and me

The Day of the Dead PIPE...

 the ones who have the eulogy written, the menu for the funeral lunch. My grandparents did. And everything but the final date chiseled into the gravestone.

Why we ignore obvious...

 “Here lies Arthur, king who was, and king who will be.” So reads the inscription on King Arthur’s gravestone