Ashes Quotes - Page 7

• I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

  Miriam Toews

  Mean, Stories, Eating

  Miriam Toews (2014). “All My Puny Sorrows”, p.173, Faber & Faber

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• How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife and failure, - is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day? The answer lies in each of us. For somewhere in your past ... somewhere some 100 years ago?there rose from the smoldering ashes of slavery?a proud and humble family who suffered and struggled with life. A family who found the strength to endure all the indignities of life in America, and that family had the hope for a taste of her bounties in the future.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Life And Love, Lying, Real

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• This crazy little party girl who loves to enjoy life actually has a purpose. So, that's really the core of why I've survived so many years and I can go and I can fall down and I can get back up. Why? Because I know why I'm here. That's the question that a lot of people need to answer when they do fall is, 'Why am I here?' If you can answer that question, you'll be able to dust yourself off and shine like a phoenix out of ashes.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Girl, Crazy, Party

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• If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.

  Drew Barrymore

  Cat, Want, Littles

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• Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion.

  Mariah Carey

  Chickens, Lotion

  Song: It's Like That, Album: The Emancipation of Mimi, 2005

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• Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Disappointment, Wings, Promise

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• Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes, together as one and against all others, break all of their wings to make sure it crashes.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Wings, Together

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• 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.

  Joseph Boyden

  Niece, Taken, Thinking

  Joseph Boyden (2009). “Through Black Spruce: A Novel”, p.40, Penguin

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• God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Flower, Loss, Grows

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• Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

  Karen Carpenter

  Numbers, Half, Firsts

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• You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people died for. An intact flag is worthless if it no longer stands for freedom. A flag burned to ashes challenges us to remember just exactly what freedom is.

  Mary Ruwart

  Freedom, Believe, People

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• I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that-and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.

  Ricky Ponting

  Team, Eye, Focus

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• The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.

  Basil W. Maturin

  Fighting, Men, Winning

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• When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Flower, Heart

  "Blessings". Book by Julia Cameron, 1998.

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• Were you raised in a barn? You don't just walk into someone's house." Ash laughed. "I have an open invitation to enter whenever I'm here." "Yeah, but what if he's naked or something?" Ash led him into the foyer. "I've known Kyrian for over two thousand years, and I can honesty say that I have never once caught him naked in his living room." The door closed behind them without Ash or Nick touching it- something that always unnerved Nick when Ash did it. "Besides, Rosa's still here. I know he's not walking around bare-assed with her on duty.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Honesty, Doors, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.379, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Oh, good grief! I’ve never had a man pick me up before and not grunt like he’s dying. I’m in heaven. Marry me, Ash, please! (Pam) I would say yes, but I come with more baggage than even Samsonite can cover. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Grief, Men, Heaven

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.538, Macmillan

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• The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Dark, Sea

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.

  John Connolly

  Blow, Soul, Abandon

  John Connolly (2011). “The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

  Lord Byron

  Disappointment, Sea, Apples

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 34

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• Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell or that story to tell, but I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Writing, Stories

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.

  Anne Waldman

  Blood, America, Identity

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Over my pile of ashes

  Stephenie Meyer

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• Man must be able to recover, to win out, triumph over adversity. And I don't mean just the little adversity like paying his room rent or something. But those deep, deep human adversities because something he has faith in has turned to ashes. Where someone he loves turns out to be just another joke. You get to the point of suicide. But you can bounce back - they can't completely destroy you.

  Frank Capra

  Suicide, Mean, Adversity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Believe, Two, Celebrate

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.200, Dell

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• But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Lying

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