Definition of Ashes

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Definition of Ashes

Ashes

The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.

Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay.

The color of ashes; deathlike paleness.

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Ashes Quotations

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

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl Sandburg

Ashes Translations

ashes in Latin is cinis cineris
ashes in Swedish is stoft, aska

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