A Quote by Jefferson Davis

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

Jefferson Davis

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Jefferson Davis
American - Leader
June 3, 1808 - December 6, 1889

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.'

Keith Richards

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

Fannie Hurst

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

Alexander Hamilton

Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When my mother passed away, we knew what she wanted on her tombstone, so I asked my father, so there wouldn't be any argument among us children, 'Daddy, what do you want on your tombstone?' He thought about that. He said, 'preacher.' So that's what's going to be on his tombstone. Preacher.

Franklin Graham

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.

Erma Bombeck

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

Orson Welles

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

Orson Welles

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

Gabriel Campisi

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.

John Brough

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

A. C. Green

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

Ali Smith

I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.

Evel Knievel

If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.

Rick Santelli

I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

Quincy Jones

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

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