Ashes Quotes · Page 12

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

— Pierre Corneille

“I changed my mind. Get out of my house now. I'll set your things on fire and mail you the ashes.”

— J. Sterling

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

— Joan D. Chittister

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

— Truth Devour

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

— James Wright

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

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

— Charles A. Beard

“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, our lives are a mirror, reflection a must...”

— Lynda Meyers

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms…

— Cassandra Clare

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with Life has taught us that…

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into…

— Taylor Swift

“Hope had been that thing with burnt feathers buried in her soul, but now it was waking up, stretching, beating fresh wings…

— Shannon Hale

The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of…

— Manmohan Acharya

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I…

— Mark Hart

“Ashes have no fear to burn in hell In your heart's paradise angels dwell Rib cage fastens all sins of the wrong…

— Munia Khan

“And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea, but for now we are…

— Jeff Mangum

Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As…

— Vivien Leigh

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

— Gregory Colbert

Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and…

— Dylan Thomas

Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On…

— Philip Jose Farmer

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion…

— Diana Gabaldon

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

— Mary Ruwart

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

— Zohra Sehgal

There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.…

— Anne Waldman

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

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

— Anonymous

We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]

— Ashley Giles

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

— William Shatner

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

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

— Douglas MacArthur

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

— Dave Mustaine

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

— Dinesh Karthik

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

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— Alfa H

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

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

— Gustav Mahler

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

— Chief Seattle

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

— Robert Harris