Ash Quotes - page 10

After his return the King proceeded to reduce the fortress of Dewurconda, strongly situated on the top of a hill, which after a long siege was taken, and the Hindoo palaces and temples, by the King's orders were consumed to ashes, and mosques built in their stead. (Firishta)
In illustration of his entire preoccupation with his studies, we are told that he would forget all about his food and such necessities of life, and would be drawing geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, or, when anointing himself, in the oil on his body. View quote
Thomas Little Heath
The sky is grey The road is grey The building is grey The rain is grey Through this stretch of dead ash Walked two children One in bright red One in light green. View quote
Gu Cheng
What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. View quote
Agnes Smedley
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. View quote
Bob Uecker
There was excitement for us all in the fact that I had a job in the mechanical field, so that my education would count.... Well, I am bound to admit the first sight of my opportunity was disappointing... Not far from a city dump on a weed-grown, marshy plain was an old weather-worn building, like an overgrown barn. In its indefinite yard there was a small mound of coal and a great mound of reddish-gray cinders and ashes; also a disorderly accumulation of discarded machinery... Once the factory had been painted brown. Only one word describes it: "dirty." Smoke from the dump carried an acric odor. Eventually across the wall nearest the railroad track there was lettered in black this legend: HYATT ROLLER BEARING COMPANY. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
The King determined to spare neither men nor money to carry on the war against the Hindoos: he accordingly directed Etibar Khan Yezdy, the Hawaldar of Condbeer (henceforth called Moortuza Nuggur), to collect all the troops under his command, with orders to march towards Beejanuggur, and to lay in ashes all the enemy's towns in his route... Etibar Khan now proceeded to the town of Calistry, which he reached after a month's march from Golconda. Here he destroyed the Hindoo idols, and ordered prayers to be read in the temples. These edifices may well he compared in magnificence with the buildings and paintings of China, with which they vie in beauty and workmanship. Having given a signal example of the Mahomedan power in that distant country, the Hindoos did not dare to interrupt his return... View quote
Firishta
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series. View quote
Ian Botham
When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff. View quote
Joseph Boyden
My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on' Angela's Ashes,' but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools. (Kerry Condon)
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. View quote
Lorna Luft
I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop! View quote
Katy Manning
You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life. View quote
Mattie Stepanek
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes. View quote
Marcus Valerius Martial
My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets. View quote
Shea Hembrey
I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space. View quote
Scott Bakula
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. View quote
Tracy Pollan
The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow. View quote
Richard Kadrey
A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret's a secret still. View quote
Sharon Shinn
And some aged man in homage to his ancient love will yearly place a garland on her mounded tomb, and, as he goes, will say: "Sleep well and peacefully, and above thy untroubled ashes let the earth be light." (Tibullus)
While those who lusted for undeserved power, and their many misguided followers, were embarked upon a malignant enterprise against their homeland and its leaders, most successors to ancient warriors and the ethically naked but finely attired retailers of divine wisdom sank deeper into the ashes of their own vice. View quote
Vijay R. Singh
If Christ has been the only manifestation of the Word, supposing such a uniqueness of manifestation to be possible, the effect of His birth would have been the instantaneous reduction of the universe to ashes. View quote
Frithjof Schuon
That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line; A new and nobler way thou dost pursue To make translations, and translators too; They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. View quote
John Denham
After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes? View quote
Umberto Eco