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" A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. "

" And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" 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. "

Rabih Alameddine

" 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. "

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

Laurent Lamothe

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

" From the ashes of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets transformed its grandiosity and excesses into boldness and virtuosity. Plus, it wasn't afraid of a catchy hook or two. "

Carrie Brownstein

" Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes. "

Marcus Valerius Martial

" Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. "

Marcus Valerius Martial

" I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed. "

" 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. "

" I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space. "

" I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes. "

" I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really. "

" I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan. "

Shigeru Yoshida

" 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. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

" 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. "

" Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. "

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

" Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear. "

" No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. "

Walter Savage Landor

" Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. "

Wilfred Burchett

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

Mary Beth Whitehead

" People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. "

Pauline Phillips

" Scatter my ashes on the Shannon. "

" 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. "

" There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes. "

" The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt. "

Toussaint Louverture

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