I'm a sinner. I don't always love God as strongly as I could or as directly as I should. Ash Wednesday reminds me that it is only through God that I have life; He gave it to me. God forgives. He loves. And He gives this sinner a second chance. Put simply: my God kicks ash.
In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.
Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.
Ewwww-eee-wwww. Hey Ash, you vant to suck my blud? (Fang) No, thanks. The last thing I want is to catch parvo from you, or some other freaky dog disease that makes me lift my leg around hydrants. (Acheron)
We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions; and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.
And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.
Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.
Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.
Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.
The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.