Ash Quotes - page 11

[After Hale's cremation] She came out of the crematorium, and there from the twin towers above her head fumed the very last of Fred, a thin stream of grey smoke from the ovens. Fred dropped indistinguishable grey ash on the pink blossoms: he became part of the smoke nuisance over London, and Ida wept. (Graham Greene)
Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times 'As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again no, nor any of my folks If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.' View quote
Vivien Leigh
We want a fireworks theory of evolution. The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks. View quote
Georges Lemaître
Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Your face had become dark, and, upon the day's awakening, your ashes will disperse themselves throughout the garden. Your ashes will fly to the sky, to make love with the stars. Sandy, Sandy, your ashes caress the rainbow flowers that tickle the blue of the sky. [short poem of Miro, on the death of his good old art-paw, the inventor of the 'mobile', Sandy Calder ]. View quote
Joan Miró
Misunderstood ain't got to be explained but you don't understand me so let me explain, stood in the heat the flame the snow, please slow down hurricane, the wind blows my dreads swang, he had hair like wool like Wayne uhh, droppin ashes in da bible I shake them out and they fall on da rifle, scary hale Mary no tale fairy all really very extraordinary. View quote
Lil Wayne
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes. View quote
Zygmunt Bauman
Wandering through many countries and over many seas I come, my brother, to these sorrowful obsequies, to present you with the last guerdon of death, and speak, though in vain, to your silent ashes, since fortune has taken your own self away from me-alas, my brother, so cruelly torn from me! Yet now meanwhile take these offerings, which by the custom of our fathers have been handed down-a sorrowful tribute-for a funeral sacrifice; take them, wet with many tears of a brother, and for ever, my brother, hail and farewell! View quote
Catullus
Thought the fool is to be pitied, still he is spared watching spurious wisdom turn to ashes in his head. View quote
Henry S. Haskins
Bloody flaming ashes. View quote
Robert Jordan
One thing alone my heart requires, - one gleam of living light amid the ashes and the gloom; that into my cell of humiliation the flood of Divine pity should break, and keep aglow the openings of eternal hope, and sustain the hidden strength of an everlasting love. (James Martineau)
I will rise again, a foe, fierce, bold, Though dead, though slain, though burnt to ashes cold. View quote
Torquato Tasso
In the distance huge trees were still blazing, around us was a waste of ashes and of half-consumed boughs, and the falling rain seemed only to quicken the dying conflagration. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
Oh Genius! fling aside thy starry crown, Close up thy rainbow wings, and on thy head Lay dust and ashes - for, this cold drear world Is but thy prison-house. Alas for him Who has thy dangerous gifts, for they are like The fatal ones that evil spirits give, - Bright and bewildering, leading unto death. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. View quote
Annie Dillard
[From Ernest von Hermanstadt]; Action-action in the sunshine-passion-but little feeling, and less thought: such was meant to be our existence. But we refine-we sadden and we subdue-we call up the hidden and evil spirits of the inner world-we wake from their dark repose those who will madden us. The heart is like the wood on yonder flickering hearth: green and fresh, haunted by a thousand sweet odours, bathed in the warm air, and gladdened by the summer sunshine-so grew it at first upon its native soil. But nature submitteth to art, and man has appointed for it another destiny: it is gathered, and cast into the fire. It seems, then, as if its life had but just begun. A new spirit has crept into the kindled veins-a brilliant light dances around it-it is bright-it is beautiful-and it is consumed! What remains?-A warmth on the atmosphere soon passing away, and a heap of blackened ashes! What more will remain of the heart? View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Then I rose, wiping the blunts ash from my clothes then froze only to blow the herb smoke through my nose and told my little man that i'm a go cyprose there's some jewels in the skull that he can sell if he chose words of wisdom from nas try to rise up above. View quote
Nas
When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
I'm proud to live here, i'm proud to be from here, i am not proud to live amongst people like you, you are the scum of the earth, and you have ruined a beautiful city, and that for a second time should be burned to the ground, and in it's ashes, i and i alone will build a Straight-edge utopia. And speaking of fat people that nobody likes, we all saw The Big Show knock me out with his big stupid ham-fist. View quote
Phil Brooks
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. (Chief Seattle)
He was all silver and ashes, not like Will's strong colors of blue and black and gold. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Valentine!" "You mean father. I despise this modern habit of calling one's parents by their names." "What I want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name." - Clary Fray and Valentine Morgenstern (City of Ashes) View quote
Cassandra Clare
She could understand suddenly why people talked about passion as fire: She felt as if they had caught aflame and were burning like the dry Malibu hills, about to become ashes that would mix together forever. View quote
Cassandra Clare
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. View quote
Joan Rivers