Top 100 The Ashes Quotes
#2. The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born
John Berger
#3. I'm Phoenix. The mythical bird that rises from the ashes. I've risen from fear and grief, from scandal and suffering, and from the crushing loneliness of walking with a purpose that is outside myself, but not within me. I know what's within me now, and I'm ready to fly again.
Heidi Joy Tretheway
#4. I realize the dust we return to is not the same dust from which we come. It is not that we come from ashes and nothingness and return to the same ashes and nothingness. The dust we return to has history. The ashes we become were touched, inscribed, detailed, adorned. They glowed.
Zoe Klein
#5. We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.
Angelina Jolie
#6. 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.
Paul De Man
#7. God can take the ashes of your life and exchange them for beauty
Sharon Polk
#8. The only exercise I get is swimming through the ashes of bridges I have burned
Dean Cavanagh
#9. I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.
Lauren DeStefano
#10. Anger is like a fire that must be burned up into the ashes of forgiveness.
Bruce Fisher
#11. I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-"
"He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.
Cassandra Clare
#12. Rising from the ashes, I am born again,
powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.
Shannon Perry
#13. Now when the flowers are in full bloom,
It is the ashes from the past that hidden loom.
Selina A. Mahmood
#14. When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.
George MacDonald
#15. Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.
Kirk Hammett
#16. Hope had been that thing with burnt feathers buried in her soul, but now it was waking up, stretching, beating fresh wings in the ashes.
Shannon Hale
#17. We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And I ask you to join together in using all that power-all that strength to make the dreams of all workers and communities around the world come true.
Andy Stern
#18. An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005
Simon Barnes
#19. Write down everything you fear in life.
Burn it.
Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.
Yoko Ono
#20. You watched me burn, now watch me rise from the ashes
Nano
#21. The scenic route was a paved graveyard of dreams, but Fillion hoped his would rise from the ashes, marking the moment when he would finally own his life.
Jesikah Sundin
#22. Bird of the sky
still bound to the earth,
soaring to unimaginable heights
yet returning to perch in the willow.
Death is near, always near
and so...is life
even in the ashes.
Rise Up Phoenix.
Live. Fly. Create!
Michele Jennae
#23. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
Ray Bradbury
#24. The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on wings too scorched for flight.
Sharon Kay Penman
#25. From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king ...
Reforge the sword.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#26. Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girl's forehead of heaven. Oh,
Herman Melville
#27. Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.
Joan D. Chittister
#28. And then you snatched me from the ashes and stirred my dreams back to life.
Paula Quinn
#29. Sometimes lifting yourself out of the ashes will cause you to be burned by other people. Guess what? You can handle it.
Antonio T. Smith Jr.
#30. 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
#31. It's crucial to be able to gather enough inner strength to rise up from the ashes like the Phoenix Bird, when it's necessary.
Sahara Sanders
#32. My heart currently resembles the ashes of my cigarettes.
Virginia Woolf
#33. Staring at the plaster death figures in the museum window, she wondered what they had been thinking as they curled up to die in the ashes. Probably not: Well, we're Romans! We shouldn't complain!
Rick Riordan
#34. Next year, when you return, you'll bring the ashes back and toss them onto that year's bonfire. In this way, each of us comes back to this place, bringing some of the past, leaving with some of the future.
Lurlene McDaniel
#35. Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a 'trading state,' the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more 'balanced' global economy that does not rely so heavily on the U.S. consumer.
Robert Zoellick
#36. Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.
Mary Beth Whitehead
#37. When Scalia dissents, he pours gasoline on the majority, lights a match, and stomps on the ashes.
Irin Carmon
#38. The pair were, in truth, but the ashes of their former fires. To the hot sorrow of the previous night had succeeded heaviness; it seemed as if nothing could kindle either of them to fervour of sensation any more.
Thomas Hardy
#39. And now we're being assaulted by the gallu. May they all burn and perish in the ashes of a dragon's scaly ass! (Tyris)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. Ritual of the Ashes," the Occitan prayer of the dead, which
Nina George
#41. Let the ruins come to life
In the beauty of Your name
Rising up from the ashes
God forever You reign
Hillsong
#42. I hope only that you have been able to find a little gold in the ashes.
Lowell Blair
#43. The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
Caitlin Doughty
#44. My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
Lorna Luft
#45. The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.
Manmohan Acharya
#47. 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 lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#48. It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.
Margaret Atwood
#49. In the ashes all men are levelled. We're born unequal, we die equal.
Seneca.
#50. A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt straw, and with the salts of phosphoric acid, prepared in chemical manufactories, exactly as at present medicines are given for fever and goitre.
Justus Von Liebig
#51. My longtime broken heart was breaking again, shattering, falling to pieces and disintegrating. And in its place was a brand new heart. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Madeline Sheehan
#52. Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.
Marcus Garvey
#53. And now, born from the ashes, she's a warrior in bloodied black.
Amie Kaufman
#54. I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that - and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.
Ricky Ponting
#55. No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth - ...
Amitav Ghosh
#56. You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.
Helene Cardona
#57. I am the dust and the ashes of the temple of the Holy Ghost, and what marble is so precious? But I am more than dust and ashes: I am my best part, I am my soul.
John Donne
#58. Foolish man, the woman spat coldly. A stronger, smarter generation is coming. They will walk the earth as the ashes of your organization rain from the skies.
Alessia Dickson
#59. Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.
Frank Muir
#60. My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.
Robert Southwell
#61. Even if the woman who had my heart, my eternal love, didn't choose me, I could be there to help her rise from the ashes and once again be my sky.
J.B. Hartnett
#62. Bower City didn't do gloomy or rainy or sad. It didn't dirty its head with the ashes of mourning. It had one bright cheery note, and everyone was forced to sing it.
Josephine Angelini
#63. It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
Nevil Shute
#64. Rise and rise again and again
like The Phoenix from the ashes;
until the lambs have become lions.
Maitreya
#65. People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.
Michael Josephson
#66. Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way ... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.
Steven Morrissey
#67. The Phoenix burns and rebirths from the ashes in the absence of need for witness, acceptance, understanding or belief.
Truth Devour
#68. The widower reviewed his past in a sunless light which was intensified by the greyness of the November twilight, whilst the bells subtly impregnated the surrounding atmosphere with the melody of sounds that faded like the ashes of dead years.
Georges Rodenbach
#69. You deny the existence of magic. It's tragic. Aren't you a child born from the ashes of stars? Born from light to decide a life?
H.S. Crow
#70. once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself. How's that for a happily ever after?
Amanda Lovelace
#71. Sometimes life's lessons may not be easily labeled; and we may not understand simply because we are too close to the situation (emotionally). Bad things and tragedy strike all around us with no obvious reasons but somewhere in this "the phoenix will rise from the ashes".
Nehali Lalwani
#72. You're fire.Fire rises.It creates the ashes.It rises above them.Promise me you'll rise with whatever is thrown your way.
Karina Halle
#73. Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.
Charlie LeDuff
#74. There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.
Stephen Kinzer
#75. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.
Cormac McCarthy
#76. You're a phoenix, Zane. Rising from the ashes. And all I do is make you burn.
Abigail Roux
#77. I mean, when the British burned down the White House in the war of 1812, did we plant a "Tree of Remembrance" in the ashes, or did we get busy rebuilding?
Brian K. Vaughan
#78. There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
Ian Botham
#79. In the ashes of adversity, lies opportunity.
S.L. Coelho
#80. In body or soul, somewhere he struck a spark, and an answering fury of passion and need sprang from the ashes of surrender.
Diana Gabaldon
#81. I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.
Shigeru Yoshida
#82. As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That's how much I hate the media industry.
Peter Sunde
#84. His soul was set in flames, and he scorched anyone who stood too close. She stepped closer, unafraid of the ashes they were destined to become.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#85. In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, one almost despairs to think how idle are the dreams and toils of this life, and were it not for the intellectual pleasure of knowing and learning, one would almost be damaged by travel in these historic lands.
William T. Sherman
#87. Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes,
Jeffrey Eugenides
#88. So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.
Paul Fussell
#89. Thor nodded with enthusiasm, not entirely certain how he (Kvasir) had come to this conclusion from the ashes on the floor but happy to know where Loki was hiding.
Neil Gaiman
#90. Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come.
Peace Pilgrim
#91. Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.
Jean Jaures
#92. ... just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.
Miriam Toews
#93. We quenched the bulging flame, amongst
the ashes embers of fire remain
Mie Hansson
#94. If my soul was filled with anything, then it was dust and the ashes of possibilities.
Sally Gardner
#95. Burn that one to the ground, Violet, and dance on the ashes. And damn anyone who tells you it's selfish to do so.
Courtney Milan
#96. The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#97. Some women become reckless with the fire, some find every way to put it out and rise above with the ashes left behind.
Nikki Rowe
#98. You are a threat because they made you so."
-- Illcina, From the Ashes
Shelby K. Morrison
#99. 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
#100. Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday.
Karen Kingsbury
