Ashes Quote by Edmund Burke

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

— Edmund Burke

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

— Martha Ostenso

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of…

— Janet Erskine Stuart

[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.

— Empedocles

“After a few generations of warfare, though, the fanatics were either killed along with their backups, or were persuaded to modify their positions.  Most…

— Walter Jon Williams

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

— Gustav Mahler

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

— Norman Borlaug

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

— Geraldine Brooks

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow.…

— Celeste Ng

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Baptists burn more slowly.

— Billy Bragg

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is…

— Jonathan Edwards