Ashes Quotes · Page 10

So open your eyes child, let's be on our way. Broken windows and ashes are guiding the way.

— Anonymous

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the…

— Anne Baxter

We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe…

— Joan D. Chittister

“He condemned monarchy itself as a system which had laid the world "in blood and ashes.”

— Charles A. Beard

Imora thea mi savur," Ash whispered under his breath in Atlantean. God save me from love.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.

— James Wright

“The Phoenix burns and rebirths from the ashes in the absence of need for witness, acceptance, understanding or belief.”

— Truth Devour

“it is not unusual to sift through ashes and find an unburnt picture”

— Nikki Giovanni

“An urn? What's wrong with, like, a big margarine container? Or an ice-cream pail? We're just going to scatter the ashes, right?…

— Sarah N. Harvey

“I think thy spirit hath passed away From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers; This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ours Seems fallen…

— Oscar Wilde

Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its…

— Bertrand Russell

“Finally- no more ruddy show for the folks back home. No pretending it's all beer and skittles and no one ever gets…

— Mercedes Lacky

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but…

— Steven Morrissey

The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and…

— Horace Greeley

From the ashes of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets transformed its grandiosity and excesses into boldness and virtuosity. Plus, it wasn't afraid of…

— Carrie Brownstein

''From the ashes of despair, the life of boundless death the soldier weeps tears of joy.'' ''For what was once death become…

— Jeremy Limn

I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die,…

— Zohra Sehgal

You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more…

— Mary Ruwart

Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express…

— Gregory Colbert

Kami said, "I want you to go in there and vamp that receptionist." "What?" Ash said blankly. "You know," Kami said. "Dazzle…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and…

— Mark A. Rayner

When the fire is over, always, in the ashes, our opportunities to repair, to move forward without vengeance being required - that's…

— Elizabeth Lesser

All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is…

— Janet Malcolm

“I once found a phoenix charred in its own ashes. I brought it home with me, wept through the night, and then…

— J. Andrew Schrecker

I heard a lot about Ian Botham's Ashes, in 1981. Everybody still talks about his performance.

— Dinesh Karthik

We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.

— Dave Mustaine

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

— Douglas MacArthur

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

— Gustav Mahler

There was something about Ash that made every hormone in her body stand up and pant for more

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“She's fire. But she won't burn you... she knows all too well, how it feel to live with ashes.”

— Alfa H

“...and some soon will learn that even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze.”

— George R.R. Martin

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

— Elie Wiesel

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

— William Shatner

The last cobwebs of fog in the black firtrees are flakes of white ash in the world's hearth.

— Denise Levertov

“If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.”

— stephen christian

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland

— Lorna Luft

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to…

— Anonymous

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

— Shigeru Yoshida

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche