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Ashes Quotes by Gustav Mahler
- Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.
- Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
- Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.
More Ashes Quotes
- A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy.… — 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… — 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… — Marcus Aurelius
- There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes,… — 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… — Pablo Neruda
- Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every… — 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… — Samuel Rutherford