When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only way to be able to visualize that is to pull back in space... It allows us to see hidden temples and tombs and pyramids and even entire settlements.

Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Somebody said something funny to me the other day. They said, 'Wolper, until two weeks ago, your tombstone was going to say, 'David Wolper, the man who produced 'Roots.' I think the tombstone now has a new inscription. It's going to be 'David Wolper, the man who produced the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics.'

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

The presence of industrial quantities of Byzantine pottery dating from the sixth century AD on the headland at Tintagel, Chinese silk in the tombs around Mecca and 'Arabic' numerals in the 13th-century beams of Salisbury Cathedral tell us we have been interdependent not for decades but across millennia.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

She glanced around at the tombstones. "You're surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job.

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

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

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone and the truth of those not to be depended on.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is 'I made my parents proud.'

After great pain a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious like tombs.

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

Faith like a jackal feeds among the tombs and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts not on marble.