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• 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.

  Bob Uecker

  Flames, Dozen, Bats

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• I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

  Ryan Adams

  Believe, Thinking, Fire

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

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• Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Track, Rising, Haiti

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• Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

  Abigail Van Buren

  Fighting, Fire

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• A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mean, Phoenix, Gone

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• The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or for the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap, and goes for a long walk.

  Frank McCourt

  Brother, Jobs, Dad

  "Sorry for Your Troubles" by Frank McCourt, www.newyorker.com. June 10, 1996.

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• The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.

  Frank McCourt

  Dad, World, Wonder

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

  Frank McCourt

  Childhood, Happy Childhood

  "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir". Book by Frank McCourt, 1996.

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• A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Men, Hot, Hell

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• Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Flower, Soul, Looks

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• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Stories, Ends

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Phoenix, Burnt Out

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• Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Poetry, Burning

  "My favourite word in songwriting history is 'that'" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2007.

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• People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Peace, Memorable

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• We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Falling In Love, Tree, Earth

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• It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

  Nevil Shute

  Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”

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• I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Wall, Swim, Watches

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

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• Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Dream, Fire, Hands

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Dream

  Jawaharlal Nehru's address to the United Nations, August 28, 1954.

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• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Animal, Men

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5

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• And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  God, Father, Men

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Horatius”

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

  King Hussein I

  Inspirational, Life, Kings

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• That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

  Barack Obama

  War, Responsibility, New Beginnings

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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