Ashes

Famous quotes containing the word ashes:

    Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me
    With thy religious truth and modesty,
    Now in his ashes honor.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.
    The Burial Service, Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
    He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
    And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
    Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863)