Ashes Quote by Anna Letitia Barbauld

“Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters…

— Robinson Jeffers

“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept…

— William Shakespeare

“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable…

— Anna Quindlen

“The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a motorway, while…

— José Saramago

“With a ring around the rosary And a pocket full of crosses Ashes to ashes They'll all fall down”

— Matthew Fitzpatrick

“That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol - blind,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The marker slants, flowerless, day’s almost done, I stand above my father’s grave with rage, often, often before I’ve made this awful pilgrimage to…

— john berryman

“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty…

— Andrew Marvell

Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming…

— Henry Kirke White

“Who can guess the impatience of stone to be ground down, to be a part of something livelier?”

— Mary Oliver

“Gray stood up and came round the desk. "Think of the words on that memorial, Wraysford. Think of those stinking towns and foul bloody…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Dull is the eye that will not weep to see- Thy walls defaced thy mouldering shines removed- by british hands, which it had best…

— Lord Byron