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Better the ashes of my own creation than the tyranny of theirs.

– HRH Rev Garnet Smuczer

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1 year ago

Right now, the volcano is ejecting steam, ashes, gases, and closer to the crater there’s been a high level of seismicity.

– Luis Fernando Velasco

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1 year ago

Ek shehar hain tera nigahon se dur kahin, jahan milti hain tu mujhe khawabon mein wahin. - Away from my sight, there is a city of yours Where I find you still, when I dream. Chalta nahi zor kismat par ab humara kya karein, milte hain hum inhi kashmakash mein kya karein? - What am I to do, when my will does not move fate? What are we to do, when in these dilemmas we meet? Chalein tere kadam mere safar par jo kabhi, mehsoos hota hain tu mujhe aaj bhi yahin kahin. - And when your feet make their journey my way, I sense you close by, even today. Koi raat aasmano par teri zulf bichati hain, teri yaad chaand ke shakkal mein ubhar kar aati hain. - Sometimes the nights drape your tresses on the darkened sky Where the moon reflects your memories gone by. Mujhe tu kismat se chup kar kabhi mil ja, main khaak ho agar toh tu gulaab ban kar khil ja. - Meet me someday, hidden from destiny And if I am ashes by then, bloom like a rose. Meri nigahon mein qaid hain yeh manzar sabhi, chalte hain teri nigahon se tez khanjar sabhi. - These glimpses I have captured behind my eyes Running like daggers sharper than your eyes. Teri adaa kya kahun kis kadar haseen hain, tu haseen hain, har lihaaz mein aur haseen hain. - What could I ever say, of your beauty, your grace For you are beautifulI n every aspect, beyond beautiful. Main hoon wahin jahan tu hain kahin, juda na ho bas dua hain yehi, hoti rahengi mulakatein tum se, nigahon se dur ho dil se nahi. - I exist, where you exist, and I pray only that we are not pulled apart I will meet you again my love - out of only sight, and not heart.

– Wajid Shaikh

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1 year ago

I do n’t think I ’m ever going to forget the feeling of my baby girl kicking inside of me while I was looking for urns on the Internet for her ashes.

– Rachel Joy Barehl Beth

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1 year ago

I will come home in the box of ashes or I will come home on a plane walking off to you but I will come home. as a mom, it kills me a little bit every day.

– Katherine Swidan

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1 year ago

It's unbelievable, you know ? We still feel like this is a dream, a bad dream, all your efforts, all your sacrifices, just there, you know, in ashes... There's no word to describe the pain.

– Shirley Ernst

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2 years ago

Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

– Scott C. Holstad

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2 years ago

He was really on my heart. I actually have a chain with a football and his ashes are in it. I scored and it fell off in the end zone. So, I’ll go look for it but he’d be happy. He’d be like if you lose it anywhere, lost it in the end zone.

– Aaron Jones

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3 years ago

Our faith gets us through, in the Bible, God says' I will give you beauty for ashes.' And heaven only knows we've got plenty of ashes.

– Joan Carter

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3 years ago

There was some pretty thick smoke and ashes falling -- very Pompeii like, it wasn't that critical, we could move, but it was certain the fire was moving really fast.

– Mel Smothers

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3 years ago

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.

– Richard Pryor

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4 years ago

The fire is still smoldering in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard. Now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world - and the world is watching.

– Tim Walz

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4 years ago

Minneapolis and St. Paul are on fire, the fire is still smoldering in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard. Now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world - and the world is watching.

– The Democratic governor

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4 years ago

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

– Gerard Way

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5 years ago

Essentially, we were able to tease out details of the emergence of the modern world - the age of mammals - from the ashes of the age of the dinosaurs.

– Ian Miller

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5 years ago

You cant silence the life-changing truth of the Gospel, from the ashes of this tragedy, we will rise up with help from our partners around the globe and continue reaching across Israel to share Gods love and forgiveness. My prayer is that this message touches the person responsible for this incident and he embraces the hope that can only be found in Jesus Christ.

– Marcus Lamb

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

These are the ashes of different kinds of stars that have faded or are on their way to fading out of the universe, moreover, because we find them preserved inside of meteorites and because we can age date meteorites using radioisotopes, we know they must be older than the meteorite itself.

– Tom Zega

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5 years ago

It was truly a special moment out of the ashes.

– Mike Eliason

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6 years ago

I’m putting the ashes in a safe deposit box in a bank in order to make sure that there’s no hoopla around Steve’s remains, i don’t want someone to do something stupid.

– Eric Paddock

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6 years ago

Two hundred ninety-five years of history have been lost to ashes because opponents want to turn the country into ashes. They do not mind destroying it, those who trampled on the statue of Commander Chavez do not see that their parents receive the pension and are benefited by social missions.

– Francisco Arias

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7 years ago

You know it is ashes right now. It looks like a war zone, but there is beauty. Beauty In those ashes.

– Ame York

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7 years ago

I don't think there is only one bomb [of this kind] but definitely not a lot of them, this bomb doesn't leave anything alive. It turns everything in ashes.

– Alexander Mozgovoy

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7 years ago

We've been given this Lazarus moment to rise from the ashes and change the direction of the country, if we fail on the first one out, I think it really sets our conference back and the President back.

– Francis Rooney

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7 years ago

Over the past decade that I've been working with relational and addictive disorders among America's elite men, women and families, I've seen extraordinary healing occur among the ashes of professional, personal and political wastelands.

– Paul Hokemeyer

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7 years ago

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