Ashes Quotes - Page 10

• Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

  John Muir

  Ignorance, Sight, Dust

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• The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had turned into the energy of the flash (E-mc2). Totally. Nothing left behind. No ash. No smoke. No smell. Nada. One moment it's there, the next moment - pffft - gone. What would it mean? Only this: Nothing lasts. Nothing. Because everything that exists is made of protons.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Mean, Smell, Energy

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• ‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Writing, Taste

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• I love you so much that it feels like the universe will explode, for as long as it takes for the oceans to dry up, so much that I don't care if my soul burns to ashes.

  Youngjae

  Drama, Love You, Ocean

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• Ewwww-eee-wwww. Hey Ash, you vant to suck my blud? (Fang) No, thanks. The last thing I want is to catch parvo from you, or some other freaky dog disease that makes me lift my leg around hydrants. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Hey, Legs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.267, Macmillan

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• Because she’s Acheron companion. (Astrid) Ash has a companion? (Zarek) (The demon snorted. She stood up and whispered loudly in Astrid’s ear.) Dark-Hunters are cute, but very stupid. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cute, Stupid, Dark

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• Simi, why did Acheron send you here? (Astrid) To protect you from Thanatos so that your sisters don’t get all freaky and destroy the world. Or something like that. I don’t know why all of you fear the end of the world. It’s not so bad, really. At least then akri’s mama be free. Then she wouldn’t be so cranky at the Simi all the time. (Simi) Ash’s mother is still alive? (Zarek) Oh, akri get mad whenever I tell that. Bad Simi. I not talk anymore. I need food. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Mad, Needs

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• Nick glowered at Ash. "Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew." Ash laughed evilly. "Oh, absolutely, son. In fact, here come your new playmates now.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dad, Home, Son

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.300, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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

  Douglas MacArthur

  Life Lesson, Past, Fire

  DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (1964). “REMINISCENCES”

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• That’s Ash’s baby. (Kyrian) Lucy, you got some ‘splaining to do. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Lucy

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• 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

  Passion, Personality, Smoking

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• For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Growing Up, Dust, Shattered

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?

  Red Cloud

  Country, Giving Up, Father

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• AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.

  Stan Collymore

  Football, Flames, League

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

  David Lee Roth

  Sprinkles, Rock N Roll, Dies

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• You are the Energizer Bunny for badasses. -Ash

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Badass, Bunnies

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• Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

  Sarah Waters

  Your Freedom

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• Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

  J. K. Rowling

  Flames, Phoenix, Reborn

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Strong, Real, Heart

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

  Antonio Machado

  Fire, Fingers

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.151, Wesleyan University Press

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• I need dating advice. Fast.” Ash arched a single brow at that. “I’m useless. I’ve never been on one.” The three human men turned to gape at him. “What?” Ash asked them defensively. Nick started laughing. “Oh man, this is priceless. Don’t tell me the great Acheron is a virgin?” Ash gave him a droll look. “Yeah, Nick. I’m lily-white.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, White, Laughing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.117, Macmillan

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• There was something about Ash that made every hormone in her body stand up and pant for more

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Body, Made, Hormones

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.865, Macmillan

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• Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dust, Whiskey, Ifs

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Self, Expression

  Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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• Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

  John Cage

  Letting Go, Fire, Long

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.59, Wesleyan University Press

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