Ashes Quotes · Page 8

“It's not how we crash and burn, but how we rise up again from the ashes that make us who we are.”

— Brian Weimer

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes

— Ian Botham

It's great to retain the Ashes but it just doesn't sit right with me when you don't win it.

— Steve Smith

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

— Ezra Pound

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

— Bette Midler

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The sky of the color of ashes in the east and embers in the west.”

— Stephen King

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle…

— Margaret Atwood

If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare…

— Wallace Thurman

Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it…

— Anonymous

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the…

— Thomas Starr King

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and…

— Billy Corgan

“I am sick of the dern box! I have not only stepped out of the hateful piece of cardboard, I have burned…

— Tanya R. Simon

Now, the Chinese people are outraged and they are sending clear signals to Beijing: "do not succumb to the West." "If you…

— Andre Vltchek

“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, what the hell did that mean anyway? Was it supposed to be a consoling thought, understanding…

— Anonymous

“It may be true that we all have a novel inside of us. Better in than out in the present case. Burning…

— Rodney Ulyate

He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to…

— Anne Bronte

A romantic relationship might very well have been initiated by God, but the moment our focus moves from our Prince to a…

— Leslie Ludy

“There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt…

— Ray Bradbury

The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into…

— Henry David Thoreau

If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow…

— Karl Marx

I'm a sinner. I don't always love God as strongly as I could or as directly as I should. Ash Wednesday reminds…

— Mark Hart

“Look', she said. It's going to be a beautiful sunset. Shall we stay out and watch it?' 'All right,' I said, and…

— Stephen King

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

— Chanakya

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Any one of the fields of ashes in Birkenau carries more weight than all the testimonies about Birkenau.”

— Elie Wiesel, Night

“The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“to subdue one’s self to other people’s ends was dust and ashes.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes.

— James Randi

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

— L. Neil Smith

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

— Walter Savage Landor

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great…

— William Hazlitt

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

— Beryl Bainbridge

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

— Anonymous

I think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show.

— Daniel Mays

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

— William Shakespeare

Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over anything.

— Beverly Johnson

There is something special about the early stages of an Ashes Test. There is this unique buzz.

— James Anderson

I don't mind a bit of cricket, but it has to be something massive like the Ashes.

— Jamie Carragher