Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.
One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.
As I said in Phoenix we had 21,000 people. We had - we didn't even have anybody stand up and try and disrupt. You know, they're disrupters.
A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.
I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was a very competitive (and stressed out!) gymnast before getting into entertainment, but it was never the actual gymnastics that was my true love. I loved the performing aspect of it all.
Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.
I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix. ' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.
I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.
Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.
Clad in metaphor, the world becomes newborn to our senses, like a phoenix. It is the most effective fresh presentation of the elements of our life for our jaded, numbed, even ailing sense of imagination.
Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?
I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother — why, its brother gave you that scar.
Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys. . . Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.
Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.
So, the Phoenix Suns are wearing jerseys written in Spanish, made in China, modeled after their best player, Canadian Steve Nash. There you go. That is America.
In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.
Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.