Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cameron White

He is a great tactician and has a really good feel for the game and will bring back plenty of experience from the Ashes which is important for our group.

Marcus Aurelius

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

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.

Jack London

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Ian Bell

If we can regain the Ashes with their best team on the park, that would be perfect for us.

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.

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

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.

Ricky Ponting

I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take.

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

Adam Gilchrist

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

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

Frank McCourt

My mother died in New York... she was cremated, and we took her ashes to Ireland one week and scattered the ashes on her family's gravesite." ()

Tom Ellis

We'll rise from the ashes one way or another. We're not an easy community to keep down.

Robert Zoellick

Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a 'trading state,' the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more 'balanced' global economy that does not rely so heavily on the U.S. consumer.

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,

Steve Harmison

Winning the Ashes is the be-all and end-all for any English cricketer, ... and that's all I'm interested in.

Steve Harmison

Winning the Ashes is the be-all and end-all for any English cricketer,

When it comes to Australian team sporting prizes, it's clear that the public consider the Ashes to be the pinnacle. We expect the whole country will be gripped by Ashes fever when the Ashes series begins later this year.

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.

Joan of Arc

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

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.

They should have been 3-1 up going into the final Test but the pressure of winning the Ashes after a long time is causing them grief.

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.

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

George Herbert

Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.

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.

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.