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

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
Denis Waitley

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

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
Neil Gaiman

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
Kim Elizabeth

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
Barack Obama

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

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

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