Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rahul Dravid

I am sure in future they will come up with a plan like the Ashes which ensures that there is not too much and not too little cricket played. I think you got to get the right balance.

Shaun Pollock

But we know Australia in Australia is a different kettle of fish and the backlash they've copped since the Ashes will motivate them to put things right.

Andrew Flintoff

I was really goosed after that last Test, so a break in France with family and friends has been just what I needed, ... But good as that was, our focus is now on Trent Bridge and the Aussies. After all, we're trying to win the Ashes and that's a massive prize.

I was really disappointed coming off that Ashes series,

If you are going to have a fire, they have to be attended to and completely out when you leave. The only way to be sure is to stick your fingers in the ashes when you are done.

Thomas More

Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, / But turn to ashes on the lips!

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

Bret Ellis

My father's ashes were kept in a safe deposit box for a long time,

O Nanak, if the shaven-headed ones do not bathe, then seven handfuls of ashes are upon their heads.

Alan Stern

Some of Clyde's ashes are on their way to Pluto today.

Michael Vaughan

She just said she'd been watching the Ashes and she couldn't watch it all because it got too nerve-wracking, and I said so it was for us as well.

Carol Burnett

She was a mountain girl, ... We brought some of her ashes here and placed them next to F.C. Jones. I know she is here tonight because she loved bluegrass.

Frances O'Grady

From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

No longer will we tolerate the insult of ashes to ashes and dust to dump.

Tom Kelly

It takes about a quarter teaspoon of ashes to make a paperweight or a heart. We've already had people call about their pets.

Oscar Wilde

I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciosness, to wake their ashes in pain.

Matthew Hoggard

They have one last chance to win the Ashes and we know they will come at us hard.

The only thing hard to take about him is the grief he's been giving us about England winning the Ashes in cricket.

We're all extremely proud that Welshmen were at the heart of England's Ashes success,

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.

Nevil Shute

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

Charles Stross

The social context of the UK is more open to the future, the old pessimism has been scrubbed and there's a view that you can engage with the future again. There is quite a lot of optimism in British science fiction, much less of the sackcloth and ashes and 'we're all going to die' attitude that it used to have, whereas the Americans have become more entrenched and fearful since 2001.

A little monograph on the ashes of one hundred and forty different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco.

Adam Gilchrist

This has been a hard trip and we feel a little bit under siege. England have hit us hard, and the thought has entered my head - 'What if we're the first team to lose the Ashes for such a long time?' It's new to us and it has been tough to work out how to get through it.

George Herbert

Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.

I can't think of anything that would have a bigger impact for the game in Wales than an Ashes Test.

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

Justin Langer

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

Is it the Ashes ... yes, England have won the Ashes.