Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Vaughan

It certainly gave you a feeling that the Ashes mean so much to so many people and the nation, to see people hanging out of the windows at work, to see kids waving in the streets certainly tells me that the game of cricket has hit home.

I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment, His burning candle consumed me - the moth; His wine overwhelmed my goblet, The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold And set my ashes aflame

Phil Jaques

I am behind Australia's best opening partnership of all time, so I have to bide my time for opportunities to come up. It would be a dream come true to play a revenge Ashes series this summer.

If I was slashed and cut into pieces, over and over again, and put into the mill and ground into flour, burnt by fire and mixed with ashes - even then, I could not estimate Your Value. How can I describe the Greatness of Your Name?

Katy Manning

I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!

Nevil Shute

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

John Green

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

Joan of Arc

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

Richard Wilbur

The little dog lay curled and did not rise But slept the deeper as the ashes rose, And found the people incomplete

Omar Khayyam

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Gerard Way

When we first started out I had a really big issue and a lot of my loved ones had a really big issue with the fact that I was totally in pain up there and there was a time when I tried to hurt myself off stage, but I got over that. Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person and I think that that is going to be a lot of what the next record is about, not to plug it or anything. Like, it's going to talk about dying and coming back to become what you totally want to become. We are all becoming what we want to become.

Janet Malcolm

All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

Moshe Katsav

When I walk the ground of the concentration camps, I fear that I am walking on the ashes of the victims.

Dan Jones

English cricket must convince cricket's new fans that a day at a county match can be just as engaging a spectacle as watching the Ashes on TV.

England set some benchmarks during the Ashes series which we can all aspire to and hopefully improve on and one of those notions is support staff around the team and we have been discussing that... the fine detail for that has yet to be worked out.

Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown.

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal life

Neil Gaiman

You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes the sapphire from a child's eyes. Dark time, who has stolen from every thing there ever was all the things that it held precious and divine... And left nothing but ashes and memories and the grave.

Adam Gilchrist

You can't be part of the side that loses the Ashes after all these years.

Justin Langer

Every high-profile performance for either England or Australia can only enhance the prospects of the Ashes later in the year.

Goldie Hawn

Though she loses the ashes on the way, the film is about the meaningful lessons she finds instead.

We always knew we would be following the Ashes and I don't think that's had a particular impact on the concept of the game.

We scattered his ashes on Bayou Caddy, because he loved it so much.

There's nothing better than an Ashes series. It's the old enemy and we are playing in the home of cricket where it all began. It's a highlight of everyone's involvement with Australian cricket.

Stephenie Meyer

Over my pile of ashes

Steven Curtis Chapman

Out of these ashes beauty will rise.

Sojourner Truth

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Imora thea mi savur," Ash whispered under his breath in Atlantean. God save me from love.

Melissa Marr

You're killing me here, Ash. Good, she said. She'd bend a few rules, but they both knew she wasn't going to push him beyond where he chose to go. Love wasn't to be based on trickery. But reminding him what he's refusing isn't trickery.

Mariah Carey

Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

St. Ash – who knew? (Gallagher)

James Graham

Let them bestow on every airth a limb; Then open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker! in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake - Scatter my ashes - strew them in the air; - Lord! since thou know'st where all these