“White as ash, her face, but ashes hold the phantoms of fires.” — Esther M. Friesner Copy Share Image
“May make my heart as a milestone, set my face as a flint, cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows? we… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A lot of the things we do in Test cricket revolves around planning for the Ashes series down under. — Joe Root Copy Share Image
My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on Angela's Ashes but as a child I had written to so many… — Kerry Condon Copy Share Image
I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I… — Duncan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Growing up, my education about Test cricket came from dad's video of the 1981 Ashes series - and Ian Botham's incredible match… — James Anderson Copy Share Image
Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry." I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“There is no greatness in dying for love, Raakha, she wanted to say. Those who die untimely, violent deaths don’t become ashes.… — Manjul Bajaj Copy Share Image
Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“The Aussies have spent so much time basking in the glory of the last generation that they have forgotten to plan for… — Geoffrey Boycott Copy Share Image
“More than a hygenic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity: The… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye,… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
