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  • The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

    Friday   Passion   Ashes  
    "The 76th Annual Academy Awards", www.imdb.com. 2004.
  • When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

  • And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

    Beach   Children   Men  
    Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.234, Pan Macmillan
  • Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who’d lost their way, the ones who’d lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.

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

    Flower   Loss   Ashes  
  • Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

    Past   Fire   History  
  • Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

    Fashion   Fire   Flames  
    Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.147, Routledge
  • When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

    Animal   Men   Snow  
  • People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

    "Robert Downey Jr. On Dating Sarah Jessica Parker, Parenting And Drug Use", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2008.
  • Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1

    Dream   Song   Cancer  
  • A man like Fidel Castro doesn't die: He is in the hearts and minds of the children who lined the streets when his ashes were driven from Havana, tracing the route of the revolution back to Santiago de Cuba.

    Children   Heart   Men  
    Source: www.finalcall.com
  • It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.

    Goodbye   Hurt   Fire  
  • 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.

    Race   Flames   Cities  
    Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin
  • Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

    Giving   Ashes   Safe  
    Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.88, Canongate Books
  • If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite.

    Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.11, Regnery Publishing
  • The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]

    Dog   Meals   Ashes  
  • God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

    Eye   Past   Phoenix  
    Song: 32 Flavors
  • 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.

    Digging   Ashes   Faces  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.213, Hachette UK
  • Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

    Autumn   Moon   Tunnels  
    Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XXV”
  • You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered. "I know her," Ash said in a low voice. "I can't... hurt someone I know.

    Hurt   Voice   Ashes  
    Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.349, Random House Books for Young Readers
  • I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

    Flames   Dozen   Bats  
  • I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)

    Rain   Love You   Clouds  
    Sapardi Djoko Damono, “I Want”
  • Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

    Thinking   Dust   Long  
  • I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

    Phoenix   Ashes  
  • Seth: "You're what matters" Ash: "Hold me? If you still want to, I mean." Seth: "Every day, I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.

  • Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

    FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from May 21, 2015
  • Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

    Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
  • We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

    Fire   Ashes   Embers  
    Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2012.
  • You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

    Autumn   Moon   Fire  
    Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.77, New Directions Publishing
  • Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

    Race   Rivers   Long  
    Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.1070, Penguin Books India
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