Ashes Quotes · Page 12

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

— Billy Crystal

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Heart on fire, ashes everywhere - there's no return from a red like that”

— Manuel de Freitas

Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes!

— Iwane Matsui

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.

— Marianne Moore

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

— William Butler Yeats

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

— Cormac McCarthy

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Anonymous

“Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast…

— Anthony Liccione

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started…

— Aberjhani

“Truth is not of this world; and they were fools who looked for her in the bottom of a well; her temple…

— William Mudford

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

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in…

— Henry David Thoreau

Guru's family gave me a piece of his ashes. I saw the gold box of ashes that his father had when we…

— DJ Premier

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall,…

— May Sarton

If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of…

— Vance Havner

I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me…

— Haruki Murakami

Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is…

— Scott Westerfeld

A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt…

— Justus von Liebig

I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really…

— Halle Berry

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

— Lorna Luft

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

— stephen christian

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

— Denise Levertov

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

— Laurent Lamothe

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

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

— King Hussein I

“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

“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

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

— Joan D. Chittister

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

— Anonymous