The Ashes Quotes

The Ashes Quote of the day

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey

ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

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

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

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

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes.

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

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

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.

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.

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.