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.

- Jack London

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

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

- Marcus Valerius Martial

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

- Marcus Valerius Martial

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

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Marcus Garvey

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

- Laurent Lamothe

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.

- Joan Rivers

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

- Jawaharlal Nehru

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

- Agnes Smedley

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

- Ian Botham

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

- Hussein of Jordan

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

- H. G. Wells

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

- Groucho Marx

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

- Elizabeth I

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

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

- Chief Seattle

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

- Bess Myerson

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.

- Bob Uecker