Greg Melville > Quotes

“Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it.”
― Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

“Our cemeteries reveal where our values lie and how we lie about our values.”
― Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

“Abraham Lincoln once worked as a gravedigger. So did rocker Tom Petty, who said he took the job because “you didn’t have to look too sharp.”
― Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

“obelisk’s symbolic representation of the male anatomy, which shouldn’t be overlooked. As my physician wife, who’s never shy with talking about body parts, puts it when we walk through old cemeteries packed with firmly erect obelisks, “A lot of men were overcompensating for something around here.”
― Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

“There’s an honesty to these places, if you’re willing to look, because the dead don’t have a deceitful bone in their bodies.”
― Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries