Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Daisy Ashford

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

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.

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.

Thomas Gray

On some fond breast the parting soul relies,/ Some pious drops the closing eye requires; / E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

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.

We threw everything at them, but they're a dominant team and they can come right out of the ashes just like they have in the past.

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.

Chief Seattle

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

Tom Kelly

The only ashes we handle here are for hearts and paperweights.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Glenn McGrath

I obviously want to be there for the Ashes and the World Cup, then we'll see how we go. I haven't felt better all season. That's a big positive for me.

Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.

I'm sort of like a Phoenix; I kind of rise from my ashes fairly quickly.

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?

In our short-term planning, the centre will play a significant role in helping Australia win back the Ashes next summer with the Australian team basing itself here in the build-up to the Ashes series.

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.

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.

Sojourner Truth

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

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.

Libba Bray

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.