Top 88 Ashes Quotes

‘Ashes Of Love’ has much more hot-blooded vocal than what PC Music is known for, and a much harder production than what I usually do, so I was fully prepared for people to hate it.

Back in 2006-07 when we completed the first Ashes whitewash in 86 years, the historical significance didn’t really filter in to our thinking. We didn’t realise it at the time – we were just making amends for 2005.

I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I’d like people to say a few words about me and I may have my ashes scattered in the sea.

The biggest problem is the funerals that don’t exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn’t in the United States.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

An Ashes series is huge for Australian cricketers – and English cricketers for that matter – and there’s always that added pressure.

‘Ashes To Ashes’ is a victim of its own success. We started lots of trends. I like to think we had something to do with bringing back the high waist. It’s so much more flattering.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

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.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

I worked on ‘Line of Duty’ with Vicky McClure after she’d just finished the last series of ‘This Is EnglandI think the great thing about ‘Ashes To Ashes’ is that it is very much its own show. and I kept nagging her to find out how it ended.

The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

I’m always fascinated by something that leaves the surface of the earth. My series, ‘Rocket Man’, was based on a true story of a man who put his wife’s ashes into space.

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

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.

Everything goes out of the window when you start an Ashes series. It’s about grabbing the moment.

My youth passed at the time of the country’s reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

In 2015, I was privileged to host the first ever televised Women’s Test match during the 2015 Women’s Ashes on Sky Sports, which saw every game covered of the multi-format series.

Being an Israeli is to know that you have risen from the ashes of those who were killed and knowing you have a responsibility for the coming generations.

At its heart, ‘Fat City’ is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

I want to win the Ashes.

On ‘Phoenix,’ I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It’s called ‘Phoenix’ because it’s talking about dying – but when a phoenix dies, it’s reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

At a personal level, doing well in the Ashes and winning it was a high.

If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes.

‘Ashes of Time’ was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it’s not very often that you have the chance to make a big martial arts film, so of course I jumped at this opportunity.

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‘Dust and Ashes Act,’ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.

As a young kid you stay up late to watch the Ashes, getting told off for not being in bed, and dream of making a hundred against Australia.

From a purely selfish, batting point of view, I couldn’t bat any better than the 2010-11 Ashes and then in India in 2012. That was as good as I could play.

You turn up to an Ashes series and put everything you can into it.

I was a fortnight away from my 16th birthday when the fabled 2005 Ashes series ended. My hero-worship throughout it belonged to Ian Bell – though I don’t think I’ve ever made that abundantly clear to him.

I think it would be wrong to consider ‘Ashes and Fire’ a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

We need to celebrate our lives. One day, we’re all going to be dead and gone, and be nothing more than a pile of ashes. This is one life we’ve got and the only way to live it is to live it up shamelessly and joyously.

It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

We can’t afford to lose all that we’ve built from the ashes of the Korean War.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.

Every time you’re involved in an Ashes series, as soon as it finishes at the back of your mind you start thinking about the next one.

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.

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

You can’t lie down in the ashes of another person’s life.

I’ve learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it.

I’m like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that’s the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That’s the American story, again and again.

Trent Bridge, 2013, is my favourite Test. An Ashes opener and England won a thriller by 14 runs. I managed to take ten wickets, which helps.

Standing at the end of your run with the ball in your hand preparing to bowl the first ball of an Ashes series is an amazing feeling.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham’s ‘Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.’ To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester’s works and the little urn that contains my mother’s ashes.

What a couple. I’m consumed into ashes. And he’s always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

There is much to justify Turkey’s reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.

Asceticism doesn’t lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn’t lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.

A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

It was a long time ago: ‘Angela’s Ashes’ by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was lasting, and I loved it so much. I also love Nora Ephron. I gobble up everything she writes. Also, I love Anthony Bourdain, very irreverent and funny.