Ashes Quote by Denise Levertov

“White as ash, her face, but ashes hold the phantoms of fires.”

— Esther M. Friesner

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

— Cormac McCarthy

An absolute patience. Trees stand up to their knees in fog. The fog slowly flows uphill. White cobwebs, the grass leaning where deer have…

— Denise Levertov

Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

— Lillian Russell

The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's…

— David Allen

Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a…

— Adrian Desmond

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.

— Clive Cussler

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

— Margaret Deland

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

— Emily Dickinson

I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I…

— Matthew Macfadyen

Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the…

— Robert Genn