Ashes Quotes · Page 13

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

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

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

— Lynda Meyers

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

— William Shatner

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

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

— Elie Wiesel

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

An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the…

— Gautama Buddha

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire…

— Paul de Man

“Forget about drawing pictures, Nana, get out in the kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Fold my clothes. Haul my ashes,…

— Stephen King

Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out…

— John Piper

“The Forest that had been about her all her life, certain as a mountain, was made ashes. The high gable that had…

— Joe Abercrombie

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the…

— Angelina Jolie

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not…

— Annie Dillard

Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows…

— Harry Graham

Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the…

— Thomas Paine

Man must be able to recover, to win out, triumph over adversity. And I don't mean just the little adversity like paying…

— Frank Capra

“Golbuchiks? Golbuchiks are ashes, entrails, dung, stove smoke, clay, and they’ll all return to clay. They’re full of dirt, candle oil, droppings,…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“I realize the dust we return to is not the same dust from which we come. It is not that we come…

— Zoe Klein

In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have…

— Rajneesh

Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return,…

— Christine Feehan

After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in…

— M. John Harrison

[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets,…

— Simon Norfolk

“...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

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

— Nikki Giovanni

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

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

— Douglas MacArthur

I havent really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in…

— Scott Bakula

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

— Antonio Machado

I'd have my ashes scattered on the Thames. Everyone can look at the water and say, 'There she is,' then wave.

— Alison Hammond

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

— Homer

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”

— Madeline Miller

Well, then," he said. "Let's do it." "What?" Vin asked. "Save the world." Elend said. "Stop the ash.

— Brandon Sanderson

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

— Agnes Smedley

Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash.

— Edmund White

“Words are not merely the ashes fall down after volcano erupts, in fact they are the entire volcano in themselves.”

— Yash Thakur