Ashes Quotes - Page 22

• Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

  Annie Dillard

  Trying, Causes, Students

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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• Now, the Chinese people are outraged and they are sending clear signals to Beijing: "do not succumb to the West." "If you do, our nation will suffer immensely, and the rest of the world will turn to ashes."

  Andre Vltchek

  People, Chinese, Suffering

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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

  Mike Pence

  Long, Wade, Roe V Wade

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for only lasts a brief lifetime, and then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and exploding fire, it becomes gaseous and disappears, and still there is eternity. Silent, unopposed, brooding, forever.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Fire, Dust, Wind

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• Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

  Francois Le Lionnais

  Education, Learning, Phoenix

  François Le Lionnais (2004). “Great Currents of Mathematical Thought: Marthematics in the Arts and Sciences”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.

  Michael Josephson

  Integrity, Fighting, Fire

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• Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.

  Hannes Alfven

  Electrical

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• I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Mind, Want, I've Changed

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• I have come to a still, but not a deep center,
  A point outside the glittering current;
  My eyes stare at the bottom of a river,
  At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains,
  My mind moves in more than one place,
  In a country half-land, half-water.
  I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
  The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
  The wind fanning the ash of a low fire.
  What I love is near at hand,
  Always, in earth and air.

  Theodore Roethke

  Country, Moving, Eye

  Theodore Roethke, “The Far Field”

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• As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear
  Into the Avon, Avon to the tide
  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,
  Into main ocean they, this deed accursed
  An emblem yields to friends and enemies
  How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified
  By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

  William Wordsworth

  Friendship, Teacher, Truth

  "Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)". Part II, No. 17. "The Ecclesiastical sonnets of William Wordsworth", edited by Abbie Findlay Potts, archive.org. 1922.

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• It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it wishes to remain free. We need not be ignorant to real threats to our safety, against which we must remain vigilant. We need only to banish to the ash heap of history the notion that we ought to be ruled by our fears and those who use them to enhance their own power.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Safety, Ignorant

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• As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Fire, Wind, Practice

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-2: Collected Works”, p.47, Allied Publishers

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• In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Men, Fire

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 1 (1940)

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• From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

  Ezra Pound

  Tree, Religion, Together

  Ezra Pound (1996). “The Cantos of Ezra Pound”, p.625, New Directions Publishing

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• Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and crass. I'll keep you grounded, like volcanic ash. I'll take you down, rung by rung. I'm just like British Parliment; I'm completely hung. Straight-up gangsta trippin'. Yes, boy!

  William Regal

  Gangsta, Boys, Wwe

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• The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.

  Walker Percy

  Time, Lying, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lunch, House, Forget

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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• The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

  Horace Greeley

  Spring, Adversity, Fire

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• I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."

  Denis Leary

  Smart, Ideas, Sound

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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• It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with Chairman Mao's wishes, for instance, the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. He had proposed in the fifties that we should all be cremated when we died and that only our ashes be kept, that no remains should be preserved and no tombs built.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Memorial, Wish, Done

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea.

  Dylan Thomas

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Reality, Blow

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• You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fire, Burning, Veins

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.

  Haruki Murakami

  Badass, Crazy, Rain

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• it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

  Charles Bukowski

  Grief, Ocean, Gone

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “What Matters Most is How Well You”, p.35, Harper Collins

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