Ashes Quotes

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

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 will only turn to dust and ashes.

My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.