Ashes Quotes

540 quotes by 408 authors

A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean,… — Michele Bachmann
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. — Anne Baxter
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to… — Marcus Aurelius
There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a… — Pablo Neruda
Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died… — George W. Bush
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
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late. — Martial
When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and… — Samuel Rutherford
Got a hundred grand in my ash tray, spend a 100 k on a bad day. — Wiz Khalifa
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that… — Denis Waitley
Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes. — Colman McCarthy
In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on… — Rajneesh
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men. — William Hazlitt
We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history. — John E. Jones III
I love you so much that it feels like the universe will explode, for as long as it takes for the oceans to dry up,… — Youngjae
As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his… — E T A Hoffmann

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