Ashes Quotes - Page 8

• I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born." 'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Digging, Faces, Pairs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.213, Hachette UK

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• Maybe it was a good thing that Bones was putting Don's remains away instead of me. With my current emotional state, I'd probably think the only safe place for his ashes was tucked inside my clothes next to the garlic and weed.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Weed, Emotional, Thinking

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• Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.

  Ted Dekker

  Dust, Amen, Dust To Dust

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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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• 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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• Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

  Katherine Center

  Sight, Hopeful, Feelings

  Katherine Center (2007). “The Bright Side of Disaster: A Novel”, p.159, Ballantine Books

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• And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

  Jeff Mangum

  Life, Beautiful, Sea

  "Song: "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"". 1998.

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• We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

  John Donne

  Love, Peace, Half

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

  Robert Harris

  Careers, Political, Amount

  Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• Since the start of the Ashes I have had a hectic workload. I've played almost every game, but I'm thinking that after South Africa and the Bangladesh series I can clock off for two or three months. It's like Friday afternoon for a guy who goes to work all week.

  Brett Lee

  Friday, Thinking, Games

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• My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes.

  Soyen Shaku

  Heart, Eye, Fire

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• God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Hurt, Thinking, Water

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• Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Race, Flames, Cities

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin

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• One inch of love is an inch of ashes.

  Li Shangyin

  Love Is, Inches

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• A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

  Aberjhani

  New Year, Bridges, Wings

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.54, Lulu.com

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• Max: "You'll never be good enough to deserve her, you know." Ash: "God doesn't always give you what you deserve," Ash said quietly. "Sometimes he gives you what you can't live without.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Giving, Max, What You Deserve

  Teresa Medeiros (2011). “The Pleasure of Your Kiss”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Empires, Today, Tomorrow

  "Finally, MLK Jr’s Revolution? Challenging Confederate Generals and US Generals Today" by Mark Lewis Taylor, www.counterpunch.org. August 29, 2017.

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• Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Dying, Ash Wednesday

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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• Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
  Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

  John Keats

  Life, Dust, Water

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 1

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• In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Long, Growing

  "Quæstionum Naturalium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Book III. 27,

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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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• Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Holocaust

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.55, Macmillan

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• He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.

  Cassandra Clare

  World, Whole, Whole World

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• I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes And they all fall down. - Sleeping to Dream

  Jason Mraz

  Dream, Fall, Sleep

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• I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-" "He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Missing, World, Care

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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